Saturday, December 10, 2011

Congratulations RG III

Tonight was a very memorable night for Robert Griffin III.  RGIII, as he is called, became the first player from Baylor to win the Heisman Trophy.  With Andrew Luck returning to Stanford for his senior year everyone believed that he would be the sure winner of the Heisman after coming in 2nd to Cam Newton last year.  Coming into the last week of the regular season it was up in the air on who believed would win the trophy between the 5 candidates, but RGIII made a run to the end proving why he should take the trophy at the end of tonight's ceremony.  Griffin ended this year at Baylor with the most passing yards and highest completion rate throughout his college career.  Griffin played 12 games as a true freshman, 3 games as a sophomore due to a tear to his ACL, and starting all the games during his 3rd and 4th year.  Griffin this season with 72.6% passing completion rate, 267/369 completed/attempted passes for 3,998 passing yards, 36 touchdowns and only 6 interceptions, he also rushed for 644 rushing yards and 9 rushing touchdowns.  RGIII first 3 years his quarterback rating ranged between 142 to 144 and jumped to 192.3 this year.  Along with the Heisman Trophy Robert Griffin III also won the Davey O'Brien award this year as well.  Once again Congrats to RGIII and I'm sure this won't be the last we see of him.


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