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Ranking NFL players who were Heisman winners and Super Bowl MVPs

By Dani Bostick

Dec 6, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) celebrates after touchdown during the fourth quarter against the New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Panthers won 41-38. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 6, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) celebrates after touchdown during the fourth quarter against the New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Panthers won 41-38. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 5, 2015; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Desmond Howard and Rece Davis during the live broadcast of ESPN College GameDay at Sundance Square. Mandatory Credit: Ray Carlin-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Desmond Howard and Rece Davis during the live broadcast of ESPN College GameDay at Sundance Square. Mandatory Credit: Ray Carlin-USA TODAY Sports /

4. Desmond Howard, Wide Receiver, Michigan

Today, Desmond Howard is best known as an ESPN college football analyst, a familiar face on Saturday mornings. Before his successful career as a sports commentator, however, Howard was a star wide receiver at Michigan whose talents and achievements earned him a Heisman trophy in 1991, a season in which he scored a remarkable 138 points.

Picked fourth-overall in the 1992 draft by the Washington Redskins, Howard had a peripatetic stint in the NFL, playing special teams from 1992-1994 for the Redskins, 1995 for the Jacksonville Jaguars, 1996 and 1999 for the Green Bay Packers, 1997-1998 for the Oakland Raiders, and, finally from 2000-2002 with the Detroit Lions.

Howard’s most memorable moment in the NFL was in Super Bowl XXXI on January 26, 1997 when his Packers defeated the New England Patriots 21-35 in New Orleans. En route to that victory, Howard had an incredible 99-yard kickoff return.

Though Howard often struggled with injury and inconsistent performance, finding himself a member of numerous teams, he was a steady force on special teams and had an unusually long NFL career.

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