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From Heartbreak to Heisman: How Joe Burrow's Magical Season Eased His Family's Pain

Celebrate the 85th recipient of the Heisman Trophy by taking home your own copy of Joe Burrow on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Jamie Burrow will forever remember the date. March 20, 2019. It was a Wednesday when his wife called him with the awful news. Jamie, traveling for work, drove from eastern Iowa directly to the hospital in his home of Omaha, Nebraska. Four months into her pregnancy, Codie Burrow’s water broke. Jamie and Codie were expecting twins, a boy and girl. Like any parents, they’d made the necessary arrangements to welcome their second and third child into this world, readying a room in their home with the normal newborn items, one set blue and another pink.