Heisman snubs: 10 best players who got the stiff-arm from Heisman voters

This is another Heisman Trophy we would love a mulligan for, 100 percent. Back in 2003, there was this redshirt sophomore wide receiver from the Twin Cities who was making a Big East team relevant by how magnificently he caught the football. That guy was Larry Fitzgerald, who is one of the five greatest wide receivers in the history of the NFL and the greatest Arizona Cardinal ever.

Sure, he played wide receiver for a so-so Pittsburgh Panthers team, but what he did as a receiver was the greatest thing we’ve seen since Tim Brown took home the Heisman Trophy as a member of the 1987 Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Both will end up in two halls of fame: college and pro, something we cannot say for the guy who won the 2003 Heisman Trophy.

The Heisman voters decided to give it to an often-injured quarterback from the University of Oklahoma in Jason White. He was a brittle statue in the Sooners backfield and had absolutely no shot at being anything in the NFL. Fitzgerald went No. 3 overall to Arizona in the iconic 2004 NFL Draft after only Eli Manning and two spots ahead of Philip Rivers.

White winning the Heisman was what we call a legacy trophy, given to a guy whose body of work overshadows any statistical season. Because he played the right position at the right blue-blood school and with the right story, he won the Heisman over the better player in Fitzgerald. If Fitzgerald won this over White, maybe the Heisman is more than just a quarterback award?