“That award is made for Randall.”That’s what ESPN.com’s Southeastern Conference blogger Chris Low said about Randall Cobb and the first-ever Paul Hornung Award, to be given out for this first time this season to college football’s most versatile player, by the Louisville Sports Commission. Just try finding a better fit for that honor than Kentucky’s No. 18.”I’m not a voter but there’s a lot to like there,” said Karl Schmitt of the Louisville Sports Commission, which created the award to honor the Louisville native and former Green Bay Packers legend. “He’s so consistent. And what I like to point out is besides the different ways he touches the ball, the guy (also) holds for field goals and extra points.”Schmitt said there’s a panel of 16 voters from various parts of the country who will select the winner of the inaugural Hornung Award.  “You just don’t see people doing as many things as he did,” Schmitt said of Hornung, noting that the award will be officially presented in a ceremony at Louisville’s Galt House hotel on January 25, with another Green Bay legend, Bart Starr, as the featured speaker. “He played both ways and he kicked and he punted.”Cobb is vying for the top spot in the national all-purpose yards ranking and he’s already set the UK record for career touchdowns with a season left to play — unless he leaves for the NFL.”I don’t think (he will leave) because I don’t think he will be projected high enough,” Low said earlier this season when asked about the prospect of Cobb entering the draft after this season. “If you are a first-round pick you ought to go; if you are a second-round pick, depending on your background, you think about it. I don’t think that Randall will be that high right now.  “I think the problem is that the NFL people are all interested, and I have talked to several of them, but they are trying to figure out where he will play. Will he play receiver or can he play defense? He certainly can be involved in the return game but he is not a natural receiver. He is absolutely one of my favorite players in the SEC and college football because, I have said it so many times, we can take Randall out and have a race and he probably won’t be the fastest, he is certainly not the biggest guy, and you start talking about who looks the best and he won’t stand out. But when you put pads on him and turn the scoreboard on and give him the football, he is magnificent. “If you get the football on the 4- or 5-yard line and have one play to score a touchdown and I can pick anyone in the SEC to give the football to, it would be Randall Cobb because he can do so many things. He can throw it, throw it to himself, he can run it (because) he is so good at seeing things, holes and creases. He is a tough, tough player. Kentucky is very, very lucky to have him.”  I reminded Low that his comment about giving it to Cobb for one game-winning play would bring back some bad memories from last year’s Tennessee game when Cobb did not get the call on UK’s last offensive snap of regulation.    “I’d say Joker (Phillips) and Randy (Sanders) would like to have that one back,” Low said.Low said the fact that this has been the first season in which Cobb has played receiver on a full-time basis means there’s probably some improvement left in the fundamentals of playing that position at the next level.So how did Cobb escape Knoxville, Tenn., given that he played high school ball only a short drive from the UT campus?”They are still asking that question (in Knoxville) every time they see him score a touchdown up there in Lexington,” Low said. “There was a combination of a few things. Tennessee was a little slow to pull the trigger because Randall wanted to play quarterback, and that was important to him, and I don’t think Tennessee and (then) offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe were sure he could play quarterback or at least be a fit for that system. “But as the year wore on and he guided (Alcoa High School) to a state championship, he was so good that someone told Phil Fulmer that if you don’t go after this guy, you are crazy. Well, Tennessee did, but by that time they were too late. Kentucky had done a great job with him. Randy Sanders had recruited him and to Randall’s credit, he was with Kentucky and was not going to go back on his word and felt that Kentucky had been with him all along. He saw himself with that program and has had a fabulous career.”UK basketball coach John Calipari often says he doesn’t know much about football but he does know leaders. And Cobb went to Coach Cal earlier this season to discuss that subject.”He’s a unique athlete and person,” Calipari said.Indeed he is.