Just give Joe Burrow another Heisman after Peach Bowl performance vs. Oklahoma

In his first game after winning the Heisman Trophy, Joe Burrow played the game of his life, as his LSU Tigers beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Peach Bowl.

Just give Joe Burrow another Heisman Trophy.

It’s been one hell of a year for the LSU quarterback Burrow who just shattered records in the Peach Bowl vs. Oklahoma to take the Tigers to the National Championship Game.

In his first game after winning the Heisman Trophy, Burrow and LSU cruised to an effortless 63-28 victory, completed 29-of-39 passes for 493 yards, seven passing touchdowns and zero interceptions.

He averaged an otherworldly 12.6 yards per passing attempt and even had five carries for 22 yards and a rushing touchdown.

It was a passing clinic that should leave no doubt about who should be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Burrow had seven touchdowns and topped 400 yards at halftime when the Sooners went to the break waving the white flag.

Needless to say, those were Peach Bowl and LSU records. The 515 total yards and eight touchdowns he was responsible for were not only career-highs for Burrow but new College Football Playoff single-game records.

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Here is a list of the College Football Playoff records broken by LSU in the Peach Bowl, according to ESPN Stats & Info.

• Joe Burrow: TD responsible for (8)
• Burrow: Pass TD (7)
• Burrow: Pass yards in a half (403)
• Burrow: Pass yards in a game (493)
• Burrow: Total yards (515)
• Justin Jefferson: Receiving TD (4)
• Jefferson: Receiving yards (227)
• Points in a half (49)
• Points in a game (63)
• Team total yards (692)

As great as Burrow was this year, he should have received another Heisman Trophy for good measure for his otherworldly performance in the Peach Bowl. And not to be outdone, Burrow had some help from his talented receivers, especially Justin Jefferson who caught four of Burrow’s seven touchdowns for 227 yards on 14 catches.

This might be the finest pitch and catch we’ve seen all year.

He has now thrown for over 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in his unforgettable college football season. He’s done this while completing well over 70 percent of his passes on the year. Usually, when a quarterback puts up numbers like this, the interceptions are always there in a pass-happy Air Raid system. Plus, that team isn’t playing for much of anything, unlike 2019 LSU.

It’s remarkable really, that Burrow has played his two best games of his college career when the stakes were at the highest: vs. the Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship and vs. Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl. It’s uncanny to believe that his two finest moments were played out at the same Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

His 11 passing touchdowns in the stadium are more than Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan who only has eight in his home stadium as CBS college football writer Barrett Sallee tweeted.

And with LSU advancing to the national championship for the first time since the 2011 NCAA season, Burrow will have another game in the stadium.

If you had any doubt about Burrow’s viability as the face of an NFL franchise, then you have no hope after this game. Burrow has the maturity, intelligence, arm strength, pocket presence and all the intangibles necessary to make him a franchise quarterback in the NFL for the next decade.

Let’s just hope the Bengals realize the type of player and young man they will be getting in 2020.

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