Heisman & Award logic busted?

While I am new to the world of CFB, I am suspicious that my concerns may be a real issue within the game. See, in my first season with UNLV I went back and forth with all American and Heisman difficulty game settings, and eventually started playing on all American because Heisman seemed to have no respect for ratings and offensive line just dumbed out more just to make the game "harder" (that's not what we want ea, we want simulation)

So, we had a senior defensive end on UNLV (forgot his name but I'm sure you can probably guess) and funny enough, he ended up getting 18 sacks (I just hold LB on defense and flick the right stick, so the linemen would actually attempt pass rush moves) and winning the Heisman. Ane hey, if that wasn't problematic enough, HE DIDNT EVEN GET DRAFTED!

Fast forward to next year after the head scratcher, I was talking to some friends and I was like man is it really realistic for a defensive player in college to win Heisman even within playing in the MWC? All them agreed, no. which I thought was right. The game seems to have no logic about the talent they're playing against, so if your 80 overall receiver (in my case, Corey Thompson Jr) went off for 1440 yards with 16 touchdowns after an amazing game vs Utah State where he caught 5 TDs including the game winner.

Suddenly, he's the Heisman leader.

I'm.. really scratching my head here. Is this a bug or more so just poor game design? Or is there some logic supportted that maybe Corey Thompson should at least be in the Heisman watch because of the great season?

Cuz now it's like if any of my players have decent years within mwc suddenly the awards seem unrealistic and therefore... Not immersive anymore.