NCAAF: Ranking the 25 worst games of past Heisman trophy winners

Ranking the 25 worst games of past Heisman trophy winners: 16. DeVonta Smith

• 2020 College stats: 1,856 receiving yards, 23 touchdowns
• Worst game: 3 catches, 22 receiving yards, 0 touchdowns, 111 return yards, 1 touchdown

It isn’t every day where a wide receiver wins the Heisman Trophy. The reasoning behind that is simple, it’s incredibly difficult handing the award to a receiver when his quarterback most likely has monster stats. After all, it’s not like receivers can throw the ball to themselves.

Still, in 2020, DeVonta Smith was incredible. His final season at Alabama resulted in 1,856 yards and 23 touchdowns. There was nothing, absolutely nothing anyone could do to stop him. Well, actually, when Smith lined up against lowly Arkansas, he simply couldn’t get it going.

Though they absolutely blew the doors off Arkansas by 49 points, Smith, surprisingly, wasn’t the main reason why. He finished the game with just three catches for 22 yards and zero touchdowns.

For as much as we want to laud and heap a ton of praise on the shoulders of the Razorbacks, it seems as though Smith wanted to prove that he could do much more than sit back in the receiver position. As he would do at various times during the season, Smith lined up as a punter and went on to have a ton of success. He may have finished the game with only 22 receiving yards but he went off for 111 return yards and a touchdown, including an 84-yard kickoff return that he ran all the way to the house.