As much as I love all our players and the fact that I actually think Damien Harris is showing Heisman capability - I agree with HTTR, the workload isn't there. Minkah would need to be playing out of his mind in order to win the Heisman, even in a down year - it's just nigh impossible for a defensive player to win it. The best shot we have at a Heisman winner is still Hurts. As he continues to improve in the passing game his numbers will look better. Even still, it's a long shot.
Look at it this way. Every year Alabama has a player on offense who likely has the talent to win the Heisman trophy. Every. Year.
BUT, the way we IDEALLY like to run our offense makes it VERY difficult for any one player to get enough touches in order to win said trophy.
The outliers being 2009 where passing was NOT the strength of our team (despite having one of the best wide receivers to ever play the game lining up wide ever night - grumble grumble) and 2015 where we had injuries in the backfield narrowing down our options and a stop and start passing game that got better at the end of the season right as it needed to.
Defensively too MANY players make plays. Last year people were going crazy over Jonathan Allen, and he was AMAZING - but Reuben Foster was unbelievable as well - oh and all those INT's by Minkah - too many to choose from.
So even with Hurts, we are still going to hand the ball off A LOT to a myriad of talented backs, making it hard to put him out front. But it's very possible - we just don't like to ask 1 single player to do so much for the team. I know CNS didn't like the workload they put on Henry but it worked and there was a need so that's what we did. If our program ran the way CNS probably wanted it too, we'd likely never have another Hesiman winner as the team would be too balanced and no single player would stand out enough to get the award.