Texas Tech football coach, Joy McGuire wants his linebacker, Jacob Rodriguez, to receive the same Heisman talk as quarterback.

It's why Red Raiders coach put his star linebacker under center to run the Wild Camp formation in the first quarter of the number eight, Texas City,

Texas Tech win over UCF.

Everybody's talking about quarterbacks for Heisman, so we put him in that quarterback today, and he scored a touchdown right before an interception.

I said, man, get the ball back.

Let's get it into the end zone.

He got the ball back for me.

Johnny, Ocho, what you think?

You think he's playing at a high enough level if he's doing similar to what Travis Hunter did last year.

Or Mantai Tao, you compared to that year where he finished second to me.

Yeah.

My first thought, first of all, shout out to him having an unbelievable season.

Shout out to Texas Tech and their coach being that damn cool to be like, yo, we're going to do this for him.

That's what Sumblin did for me and Kingsbury did for me.

They let me try and kick a field goal.

They tried to get me every stat in the book when it got close.

I respect that.

I think he's having an unbelievable season.

One of the best we've seen by a

linebacker in a long time. It's an unbelievable story. He probably deserves to be in New York. However,

most outstanding college football player in America is what the award goes to. I have a hard time

sitting here arguing that he's the best defensive player in the country.

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