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Best college football players of all time from every state

By Nate Williamson

Longhorns QB Vince Young during Texas' 51-10 win over the Rice Rice Owls in NCAA College Football at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Karl Wright/Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images)
Longhorns QB Vince Young during Texas' 51-10 win over the Rice Rice Owls in NCAA College Football at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Karl Wright/Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images) /
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LOUISIANA, NO – JANUARY 1: Running back Herschel Walker #34 of the University of Georgia Bull Dogs carries the ball against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the Sugar Bowl game January 1, 1981 at the Louisiana Superbowl in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Bull Dogs won the game 17-10. Walker played at the University of Georgia from 1980-1983, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1982. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
LOUISIANA, NO – JANUARY 1: Running back Herschel Walker #34 of the University of Georgia Bull Dogs carries the ball against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the Sugar Bowl game January 1, 1981 at the Louisiana Superbowl in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Bull Dogs won the game 17-10. Walker played at the University of Georgia from 1980-1983, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1982. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) /

Georgia – Herschel Walker

The state of Georgia has produced some top-tier talent over the years, but all fall in comparison to the great Herschel Walker. A native of Wrightsville, Walker put together what could be said to be the greatest three-year career for an NCAA running back.

In that three year span, Walker compiled 5,259 total yards, with an average of nearly 160 per contest, and incredible showing by any and all standards. Walker was a three-time All-American at Georgia and won the Heisman in 1982 to put alongside an already-won National Championship, which he helped pick up as a freshman for the Bulldogs.

A talent from the start, Walker also finished in the top three in Heisman voting a massive three times in his three-year collegiate career, the first and only player in the history of college football to do that. Like the aforementioned Bo Jackson, Walker was a dual-sport athlete at the professional level and more.

Like Jackson, he was also a Major League Baseball player, but was also an All-American sprinter at Georgia, and would compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics as one half of a pairing in the two-man bobsled competition. Perhaps the greatest fun fact is that Walker would also eventually go on to have two MMA fights in his career, expanding his sporting legacy.

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