Husker Football: Ameer Abdullah’s Five Steps to the Heisman

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If you’re a Husker football fan who follows Nebraska religiously (is there any other kind?) you can’t open a Cornhusker State newspaper, Big Red web site, visit a forum or go on Twitter without seeing four prominent words: Ameer Abdullah for Heisman.

Don’t you dare forget to mention the senior running back’s name when discussing who might hold the bronze statue aloft.

Whatever you do, absolutely do not omit Abdullah when discussing the best backs in the country or those that could legitimately win “THE” prize.

Whether a fan, an analyst or a voter (the three aren’t mutually exclusive), there’s an unwritten set of criteria that you have for the Heisman winner to meet. A checklist, if you will. All aren’t exactly the same, but tend to be similar.

Unfortunately, Abdullah has one thing going against him already: he’s a running back. The Heisman’s been a quarterback’s award for some time now. Over the past 20 years, five winners have toted the rock almost exclusively.

The rest? Quarterbacks, except for Charles Woodson who had to do everything except make Juilliene fries, and he may have done that in the Michigan cafeteria.

How can No. 8 get to New York and win? As his head coach likes to say, it’s a process and it only takes five not so simple steps.