{"id":21132,"date":"2022-07-21T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alabamas-bryce-young-wins-espy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:54:47","slug":"alabamas-bryce-young-wins-espy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alabamas-bryce-young-wins-espy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama&#8217;s Bryce Young wins ESPY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BXMISAO55NFKXMJRXBQPLJYWKY\">Bryce Young didn&#8217;t have to wait for the primetime ESPYs broadcast to claim his award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HYKLUVKMPNBSXM7HHCIDWG754A\">The Alabama quarterback&#8217;s win in the male college athlete of the year category was announced before the show began 7 pm CT on ABC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D6SY4RQ5BJFH7JBCYN557NWN4Q\">The other three nominees included Georgetown soccer player Dante Polvara, Gonzaga basketball player Chet Holmgren and Maryland lacrosse player Logan Wisnauskas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"622JP674JNBLNKZJE3UV4ANEQQ\">Young is the second straight Alabama winner of this award after DeVonta Smith took it in 2021. Before that, Mark Ingram (2010) and Derrick Henry (2016) were nominees as Tim Tebow and Buddy Held respectively won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HQSSTLDGGRDUHD26N7VND6OUVE\">The Crimson Tide can still claim another ESPY on Wednesday night as a game of the year nominee for the 4-OT win over Auburn in the 2021 Iron Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T7OVOJ7J2NCDZJ326PBUNKCMTM\">Young joins a short list of Alabama winners at the ESPYs.  Tyrone Prothro won the 2006 best play for his legendary catch against Southern Miss the previous fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SQS35B3ONNFAPJKEGIBBGFHUQM\"><i>Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group.  Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bycasagrande\" target=\"_blank\"><i>@ByCasagrande<\/i><\/a><i>  or ten <\/i><i>Facebook<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Young didn&#8217;t have to wait for the primetime ESPYs broadcast to claim his award. The Alabama quarterback&#8217;s win in the male college athlete of the year category was announced before the show began 7 pm CT on ABC. The other three nominees included Georgetown soccer player Dante Polvara, Gonzaga basketball player Chet Holmgren and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alabamas-bryce-young-wins-espy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alabama&#8217;s Bryce Young wins ESPY<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18235,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dawn-staley-calls-out-espn-for-not-inviting-best-college-player-nominee-aliyah-boston-to-espys\/","url_meta":{"origin":21132,"position":0},"title":"Dawn Staley calls out ESPN for not inviting best college player nominee Aliyah Boston to ESPYs","date":"July 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Dawn Staley does not let perceived injustices slide by, especially when they involve her national player of the year. 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