SEC Football: Each team’s top Heisman Trophy candidate for 2020

If the Texas A&M Aggies take the next step and finish at the top in the SEC West it is because the “Burrow principle” is in full effect. Most feel that the Aggies are a quarterback away from contention. For the sake of sounding highly critical, Kellen Mond is the reason they are not better.

Working from the premise that the Heisman goes to the best player on the best team, Mond would have to be the difference-maker in order for the Aggies to take the next step. His pedestrian play the last two years are the difference between A&M playing Clemson tough and actually winning.

The Aggies are proof that in today’s game quarterback play makes all the difference in those two extra wins a team needs to contend for the college football playoff. Looking at Mond’s numbers it is easy to know where he needs to improve.

Mond had five games last season in which he completed less than 60 percent of his passes. He only had five games where he threw more than one touchdown. The senior quarterback was not terrible last season; he was average. There were no big plays when the game was on the line either.

That has to improve. If he makes that quantum leap and the Aggies are playing for a championship, there is no doubt he’ll be in New York.