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4. Given that outside of Woodson and Desmond, only quarterbacks and running backs win the award, I really don't know what it means to be the "best player".

And thus, I present to you the nominees for "The Non-Quarterback, Non-Running Back Voldemort" by Gregg Easterbrook (formerly at ESPN, now at the NY Times):

Defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah of Oklahoma State
Offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil of Ole Miss
Defensive end Joey Bosa of Ohio State
Guard Joshua Garnett of Stanford ("This elite academic university finished 11-2 mainly because of an excellent line led by Garnett, who’s an honest-to-goodness student majoring in human biology.")

Easterbrook chickens out and gives it to the entire Clemson OL, which is no doubt outstanding, but is not the "most outstanding player".  I'm not sure if his list was supposed to be in reverse order of merit, in which case Garnett  might have been the best player (unless there was a specific Clemson lineman who deserved it).  And not to Easterbrook, Graham Shuler, our center, also pulls sometimes.

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4. Given that outside of Woodson and Desmond, only quarterbacks and running backs win the award, I really don't know what it means to be the "best player".

And thus, I present to you the nominees for "The Non-Quarterback, Non-Running Back Voldemort" by Gregg Easterbrook (formerly at ESPN, now at the NY Times):

Defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah of Oklahoma State
Offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil of Ole Miss
Defensive end Joey Bosa of Ohio State
Guard Joshua Garnett of Stanford ("This elite academic university finished 11-2 mainly because of an excellent line led by Garnett, who’s an honest-to-goodness student majoring in human biology.")

Easterbrook chickens out and gives it to the entire Clemson OL, which is no doubt outstanding, but is not the "most outstanding player".  I'm not sure if his list was supposed to be in reverse order of merit, in which case Garnett  might have been the best player (unless there was a specific Clemson lineman who deserved it).  And not to Easterbrook, Graham Shuler, our center, also pulls sometimes.

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