{"id":4493,"date":"2013-07-18T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2013-07-18T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:56:52","slug":"the-2013-doak-walker-award-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2013\/07\/18\/the-2013-doak-walker-award-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 Doak Walker Award Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Doak Walker Award is to honor the top running back in college football. Previous winners include players such as:
\nReggie Bush, Darren McFadden, Shonn Greenn, Toby Gerhart, LaMichael James, Trent Richardson and Montee Ball.<\/p>\n

Here are the names of the candidates that will have the opportunity to earn the trophy this season. <\/p>\n

James White (Sr.), Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Andre Williams (Sr.), Boston College<\/p>\n

Damien Williams (Sr.), Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Jamaal Williams (So.), BYU<\/p>\n

Jonathan Williams (Sr.), Arkansas<\/p>\n

Ameer Abdullah (Jr.), Nebraska<\/p>\n

Michael Alisa (Sr.), BYU<\/p>\n

Antonio Andrews (Sr.), Western Kentucky<\/p>\n

Dri Archer (Sr.), Kent State<\/p>\n

Brendan Bigelow (Jr.), California<\/p>\n

Beau Blankenship (Sr.), Ohio<\/p>\n

Alfred Blue (Sr.), LSU<\/p>\n

Dominique Brown (Jr.), Louisville<\/p>\n

Ka’Deem Carey (Jr.), Arizona<\/p>\n

B.J. Catalon (So.), TCU<\/p>\n

Orleans Darkwa (Sr.), Tulane<\/p>\n

Kenneth Dixon (So.), Louisiana Tech<\/p>\n

Trayion Durham (Jr.), Kent State<\/p>\n

Jahwan Edwards (Jr.), Ball State<\/p>\n

David Fluellen (Sr.), Toledo<\/p>\n

D.J. Foster (So.), Arizona State<\/p>\n

Melvin Gordon (So.), Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Marion Grice (Sr.), Arizona State<\/p>\n

Todd Gurley (So.), Georgia<\/p>\n

Joe Hill (Jr.), Utah State<\/p>\n

John Hubert (Sr.), Kansas State<\/p>\n

Carlos Hyde (Sr.), Ohio State<\/p>\n

Waymon James (Sr.), TCU<\/p>\n

Duke Johnson (So.), Miami<\/p>\n

Storm Johnson (Jr.), UCF<\/p>\n

Matt Jones (So.), Florida<\/p>\n

Henry Josey (Jr.), Missouri<\/p>\n

Ben Malena (Sr.), Texas A&M<\/p>\n

Raymond Maples (Sr.), Army<\/p>\n

Venric Mark (Sr.), Northwestern<\/p>\n

Keith Marshall (So.), Georgia<\/p>\n

Glasco Martin (Sr.), Baylor<\/p>\n

Tre Mason (Jr.), Auburn<\/p>\n

Lyle McCombs (Jr.), Connecticut<\/p>\n

Adam Muema (Jr.), San Diego State<\/p>\n

David Oku (Sr.), Arkansas State<\/p>\n

Branden Oliver (Sr.), Buffalo<\/p>\n

Jordan Parker (So.), Middle Tennessee<\/p>\n

LaDarius Perkins (Sr.), Mississippi State<\/p>\n

Senorise Perry (Sr.), Louisville<\/p>\n

Christian Powell (So.), Colorado<\/p>\n

Darrin Reaves (Jr.), UAB<\/p>\n

Silas Redd (Sr.), USC<\/p>\n

Bishop Sankey (Jr.), Washington<\/p>\n

Lache Seastrunk (Jr.), Baylor<\/p>\n

David Sims (Sr.), Georgia Tech<\/p>\n

James Sims (Sr.), Kansas<\/p>\n

Kiero Small (Sr.), Arkansas<\/p>\n

Jeremy Smith (Sr.), Oklahoma State<\/p>\n

Jerome Smith (Jr.), Syracuse<\/p>\n

De’Anthony Thomas (Jr.), Oregon<\/p>\n

Zurlon Tipton (Sr.), Central Michigan<\/p>\n

Trey Watts (Sr.), Tulsa<\/p>\n

Mark Weisman (Jr.), Iowa<\/p>\n

James White (Sr.), Iowa State<\/p>\n

Storm Woods (So.), Oregon State<\/p>\n

T.J. Yeldon (So.), Alabama<\/p>\n

Zach Zwinak (Jr.), Penn State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Doak Walker Award is to honor the top running back in college football. Previous winners include players such as: Reggie Bush, Darren McFadden, Shonn Greenn, Toby Gerhart, LaMichael James, Trent Richardson and Montee Ball. Here are the names of the candidates that will have the opportunity to earn the trophy this season. James White […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,1722,1729,1731,1713,1761,1749,1742,1746,1727,1758,1745,1710,1750,1715,1712,1718,1765,1754,1747,1772,1739,1744,1732,1759,1767,1768,1708,1760,1734,1717,1726,1725,1753,1721,1720,1737,1751,1752,1740,1714,1743,1719,1735,1711,1762,1769,1764,1771,1748,1763,1736,1723,1741,1728,1724,1766,1755,1738,1756,1733,1757,1716,1709,1730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}