15 best college football players we wish played in the Twitter era

3. Best college football players before Twitter: Reggie Bush, RB, USC

Reggie Bush was so special, there wasn’t much anyone could do to stop him. Sure, teams could delay the inevitable big play, but it was going to come. It just had to. Bush could hurt you in so many different ways.

The man was a human highlight reel for the Hollywood team — Pete Carroll’s USC. Quite frankly, he moves in ways that shouldn’t be possible. He is almost the 2000s answer to Sanders. So many slipped tackles just begging to be tweaked and remixed on Twitter. Let Chris Berman cover any of his highlights and you are guaranteed at least three “whoops!”

When Bush burst onto the College scene, he looked like he was the archetype for the position-less offensive player. In his career, he rushed for more than 3,000 yards. His combined rushing and receiving yards were 4,470 yards for his career. Bush accounted for more than two and a half football miles in his three-year college career. Almost half of those yards — 2,218 — came in his Heisman winning season in 2005.

Oh and he was also electric returning kicks and punts, returning one kick and three punts for touchdowns.

Off the field, Bush seems to have been overshadowed by teammate Matt Leinart, except, you know, the whole impermissible gifts thing. But he would have been one of the best follows on Twitter while he was playing. You and your followers could watch his incredible moves and sing a chorus of “ohs.”

Twitter missed out on a good one here.