<Tr> <Th> Assists </Th> <Td> 2,539 (4.0 APG) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Stats at Basketball-Reference.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Charlie Ward Jr. (born October 12, 1970) is a retired American professional NBA basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien Award winner and a Major League Baseball draftee . Despite his NCAA football success, Ward was one of the very few players who won a Heisman trophy but was not drafted in the NFL draft . He won the College Football National Championship with the Florida State University Seminoles . Ward played several years with the New York Knicks and started in the NBA Finals . He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006 . An avid tennis player, Ward also displayed his skills at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Tournament in 1994 . </P> <P> Ward won the 1993 Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Davey O'Brien Award as a quarterback for Florida State University, and subsequently led the Seminoles to their first - ever National Championship when FSU defeated Nebraska 18--16 in the 1993 Orange Bowl . The Seminoles had suffered their only defeat of the season to a second - ranked Notre Dame team, but their path to the National Championship was cleared a week later when the Irish were upset at home by Boston College . Ward holds the third - largest margin of victory in the history of Heisman trophy balloting, with a 1,622 - point difference, third only to O.J. Simpson's 1,750 - point win in 1968 and Troy Smith's 1,662 - point win in 2006 . He was also the only Heisman winner to play in the NBA . In 1993, Charlie Ward won the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States . </P>

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