Opinion Column: ‘Stetson Bennett is the American Dream’

  • Gridiron savvy is in Stetson Bennett IV’s DNA. Stetson’s grandfather Buddy, holding him in the family photo inset, was a stellar, scrambling quarterback at Jesup High School and the University of South Carolina. Buddy Bennett died in 2016, but he would have loved being in New York to see his grandson honored as one of the four Heisman Trophy finalists. The 2022 honorees are (from left) Bennett, TCU’s Max Duggan, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Southern Cal’s Caleb Williams. (TODD VAN EMST)
    Gridiron savvy is in Stetson Bennett IV’s DNA. Stetson’s grandfather Buddy, holding him in the family photo inset, was a stellar, scrambling quarterback at Jesup High School and the University of South Carolina. Buddy Bennett died in 2016, but he would have loved being in New York to see his grandson honored as one of the four Heisman Trophy finalists. The 2022 honorees are (from left) Bennett, TCU’s Max Duggan, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Southern Cal’s Caleb Williams. (TODD VAN EMST)

    Before you go there about sour grapes, stop. 

     

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