{"id":216224,"date":"2021-01-06T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=216224"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:20:22","slug":"the-latest-heisman-trophy-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=216224","title":{"rendered":"The latest Heisman Trophy winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-216226\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Smith_DeVonta2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Smith_DeVonta2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Smith_DeVonta2-127x175.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Move over running backs, Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith has emerged as the best player in college football.<\/p>\n<p>Smith became the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy in 29 seasons Tuesday night, breaking the monopoly quarterbacks have had on college football\u2019s most prestigious award by beating out three of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide senior is the fourth receiver to win the Heisman, joining Michigan\u2019s Desmond Howard in 1991, Notre Dame\u2019s Tim Brown in 1987 and Nebraska\u2019s Johnny Rodgers in 1972. The other finalists were Smith\u2019s Alabama teammate Mac Jones, Clemson\u2019s Trevor Lawrence and Florida\u2019s Kyle Trask. Crimson Tide running back Najee Harris finished fifth in the voting. Quarterbacks had won 17 of the previous 20 Heisman trophies, including the last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Move over running backs, Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith has emerged as the best player in college football. Smith became the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy in 29 seasons Tuesday night, breaking the monopoly quarterbacks have had on college football\u2019s most prestigious award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216227,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216224\/revisions\/216227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}