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Where are Matt Leinart's votes?
NEW YORK -- Vince Young looks as if he'll make the NFL his personal playground, too.
Vince Young ran away with the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
The dynamic quarterback for the Tennessee ans won The Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year Award on Wednesday. He did it in the same fashion he turned around the ans' season -- running away from the rest of the field.
Young, who led Texas to the 2005 national championship and was the third overall pick in last April's draft, overwhelmed one of the strongest rookie classes in NFL history. He received 23 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league.
That easily beat New Orleans wide receiver Marques Colston and Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew, who had nine apiece; San Diego tackle Marcus McNeill (6); and Saints running back Reggie Bush (3).
Running back Carnell "Cadillac" Williams of Tampa Bay won the award last year. Young is the third member of the Tennessee-Houston franchise to take top rookie honors: Earl Campbell in 1978 and Eddie George in 1996 did it for the Houston Oilers.
Young was the catalyst in Tennessee's rally from 0-5 to 8-8, at times looking as unstoppable for the ans as he did with the Longhorns. A starter from Week 4, Young sprinkled all kinds of spectacular big plays with a growing maturity in joining Ben Roethlisberger (2004) as the only quarterbacks to win top rookie honors in the 49-year history of the award.
He became the first rookie quarterback to rush for more than 500 yards in the Super Bowl era, and his passing skills improved all year under coach Jeff Fisher and offensive coordinator Norm Chow.
"I like to go out there and play the game and show that I can deliver the ball down the field, and that I can use my legs at the right time, when it's time to use my legs, and checking the ball down, just being a quarterback," Young said. "I want to change the game a little bit."
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Offensive Rookie of Year voting
Vince Young Tennessee 23
Marques Colston New Orleans 9
Maurice Jones-Drew Jacksonville 9
Marcus McNeil San Diego 6
Reggie Bush New Orleans 3 <--------------
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He's already helped change the perception of what a first-year quarterback can do given playing time. Young sat and learned for barely a month while Kerry Collins started and the ans struggled. Then Fisher turned to the youngster well before he'd planned.
And Young delivered as the ans threatened to become the first team to lose its opening five games and then make the playoffs. They were in contention until the final weekend, thanks greatly to a six-game winning streak that included a remarkable comeback from 21-0 down in the final 10 minutes to beat the Giants.
"He was very prepared when he got here because of the experience he had in college," said Fisher, who along with Tennessee's scouts and general manager Floyd Reese chose Young over Matt Leinart and Jay Cutler in the draft. "We knew that he had a chance to improve and obviously that's why we went ahead and started him when we did. We felt like he was ready."
Chow, who worked with Heisman Trophy winners Leinart and Carson Palmer at Southern California, is considered one of the finest teachers of quarterbacks in the business. What does he like most about Young, who left Texas after his junior season?
"Besides the physical skills, it's the will and the strength inside, the 'it' factor that a quarterback either has or doesn't have," Chow said. "Obviously, he has it. The quickness in which he won the team over and the quickness in which he became the leader, the guy everybody looked up to, that was special.
"Vince Young has this great ability to lift others around him. To see him do it so quickly, that wasn't a surprise, but it was certainly good to see."
Perhaps Young's finest moment was a 39-yard TD run in overtime to beat Houston, his hometown team that bypassed the Lone Star State hero to take defensive end Mario Williams atop the draft. There seemed to be as many ans No. 10 jerseys in Reliant Stadium as any Texans shirts.
"It was a great ending," Young said. "Being from Houston and being in front of my family and the fans that respect me as a player and a person, as well, it can't get any better than that."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
Where are Matt Leinart's votes?
Who???
Wait and see, you'll see some idiot prob comment that Matt wasn't healthy & blah blah blah.
What they should say is that, VY took hits & stayed in the game while Matthew tooks hits & had to have his pussy MRI'd.
Sorry. Still think Colston was by far and away the best rookie. He was hurt by the hype machine.
I would disagree with you. To play QB in the NFL and play it effectively is much more difficult than wr or te.
Maurice Drew got 9 votes?
A distant second, but not too bad.
So... the best QB of all time is automatically better than the best WR of all time?
No, I did not say that. Simply put if you had the 1st pick of a draft and it was between the best QB ever or best ever WR which would you choose?
Hhhhmmmmm, John Elway or Jerry Rice.............I'll go with Elway.
I think Vince Young leading a team to 8 wins when the team had no business winning 8 games this year & next year combined was the determining factor.
8-5 record as a starter which also included wins over Philly, Jacksonville, Indy, and the massive comeback against the Giants. Plus, he did this with little to no receiving talent. Bennett's not bad, but the 2nd leading WR was Bobby freaking Wade who couldn't even keep a job with the Bears last year.
Good for him!!!
Good grief, you could spin a turd into a tasty treat if you threw enough wordplay at it, but it doesn't make it better.
why?....vyoung was horrible this year. he only won b/c of hype....no doubt about it.
Well now you know how Texas fans felt last year when Bush won the heisman
Talk about hype!
You would think with the last 2 H winners sc would've at least played a good game.
When UT finally began playing late in the 4th it was all over.
Funny how Vince-Haters say the only reason Texas was good was because of VY, but not somehow NONE of the ans success if because of him.
The excuses that from their mouths are very funny.
Like a kinderkid trying to rationalize.
I looked at Leinarts and other QBs and Vince was way better. It didn't even occur to me to use Bruce, you must of went through a lot of QBs to eventually get to him......
I just looked at Bruce he had 9 TDs total.
Vince had 18 TD's, 2200 yrds passing and almost 600 yrds rushing in 13 games.
Bruce is the guy that was so good he ended the season as a starting QB?
it amazes me how forgetful and pitiful some of you posters are. i SAID vyoung was an amazing college football player...and he was. THEN, simply, that his game won't transfer to the NFL....and so far, it hasn't.
...that is of course, if you're talking about me...which most of the time these types of posts are.
JGW is an idiot. That is all.
Do you mean taking over & winning games & awards?
I guess you haven't seen any an games or post game highlights this year!!If I remember right VY didn't dominate in his first year of college football either, but the guy just wins games and gets better season by season. Next year this guy will be even scarier for NFL defenses!!
...you could make that argument. personally, i think what Bush does to defenses makes his #'s even more impressive, however i could see either as the rookie of the year for the Saints. they were both very good and i hope they get better every year.
What to hit that nerve ElPimpo!!!
I see you got under the thin skinned BandWagonner, AGAIN!
I like your style.
Do the playoffs start today?
Good Job Vince
U the MAN!!!!!!!
FIGHT ON!!!!
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