Arkansas’ Darren McFadden was one of the first great running backs to get swept aside as college football became dominated by the wave of dual-threat quarterbacks.
Lorenzo White was a standout at Michigan State in the days when running backs were college football’s biggest stars, but his best season came as a sophomore back when Heisman Trophy winners were always upperclassmen.
Vince Young put up dizzying dual-threat numbers at Texas before it was common in college football.
Young, McFadden and White were among 13 players and two coaches being inducted into College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday night at the National Football Foundation’s awards dinner in New York.
McFadden was Heisman runner-up twice, losing out twice to quarterbacks who could do it all. Troy Smith of Ohio State was a landslide winner in 2006, though he didn’t run as much that season as he did as a junior. McFadden was relegated to second in 2007 by Florida’s Tim Tebow, who was the first player to throw 20 touchdown passes and run for 20 TDs in a season.
McFadden ran for more than 1,600 yards in each of those seasons, and in ’07 was his own version of a dual-threat. Running out of Arkansas’ wildcat formation, McFadden threw four touchdown passes in 11 attempts.
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