The greatest college football player ever — Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star.
Herschel Walker Jr was born in Wrightsville, Georgia in 1962. He won the Heisman Trophy at the University of Georgia in 1982 — the most dominant individual college season in the sport's history. He left college early to join the USFL. The Dallas Cowboys traded him to Minnesota in 1989 in the most consequential trade in NFL history — giving up five players and six draft picks including three first-rounders, two of which became Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson. The Herschel Walker trade is used in NFL management training as the defining example of trading away too much for a single player. He ran for the Georgia Senate in 2022, losing the runoff election. He has been open about having dissociative identity disorder.
NFL rushing title 1988
Career Honours
- NFL rushing title 1988
- Heisman Trophy 1982
- USFL champion