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Harvard running back Clifton Dawson was among the 16 players named to The Sports Network’s Payton Award watch list, when it underwent its first of three revisions earlier this month...
...rushing with 145.1 yards per game. The two players immediately in front of Dawson—Ed Pricolo of Sacred Heart and Sean Mayers of St. Peter’s—both play for mid-major programs and essentially aren’t in the running for the award, leaving the nation’s leading rusher, Charles Anthony of Tennessee State, as Dawson’s lone competition. Remember that name, because we’ll be coming back to him later...
Incoherent and irrelevant tangents aside, Dawson has clearly put up the numbers so far that will make him a player in the Payton Award race. Another thing working in his favor is that the Crimson is having an outstanding year, and, like the Heisman, players on better teams are at a distinct advantage. In fact, only one player from a losing team—running back Jerry Azumah of New Hampshire, in 1998—has ever won the award, and the last five winners have all come from teams that claimed a conference or national title...
...that we’ve heard all about Dawson, let’s take a quick look at the rest of the handful of candidates who have a legitimate shot of taking home the award...
...three touchdowns, and he hauled in three receptions for 75 yards and another score, but the Tigers (3-4, 1-2 OVC) still fell to a hapless Samford squad 42-36 in overtime. If there’s a player out there that could take home the Payton Award while playing on a losing team, it’s Anthony. But, as history has shown, the odds aren’t in his favor...