For the fourth consecutive season, the College Football Researchers Association has crowned a Player of the Year, and this season Alabama’s Derrick Henry takes the title. In the past three seasons, the CFRA Player of the Year has gone on to take the Heisman so we will see if that happens again next weekend. This was our closest-ever CFRA player of the year race with Henry nosing out Clemson’s Deshaun Watson by a single point! The full breakdown of votes is below with the number of first-place votes each player received in parentheses:
1. Derrick Henry (4)– 42 points
2. Deshuan Watson (4)– 41 points
3. Christian McCaffrey (2)– 31 points
4. Baker Mayfield– 11 points
5. Dalvin Cook– 9 points
6. Ezekiel Elliott– 5 points
7. Keenan Reynolds– 4 points
8. Leonard Fournette– 3 points
8. Brandon Doughty– 3 points
10. Greg Ward Jr.– 1 point
The College Football Researchers Association 