Reggie Bush — one of the sport’s most electrifying players ever — will officially be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday as part of the 2023 Class.

He says it’s time for the Heisman Trust to right a wrong and return his Heisman Trophy.

“They literally have the ability to right now,” Bush said Tuesday at a press conference in Las Vegas ahead of the ceremony, per The Messenger’s Arash Markazi.

“They need to do the right thing. It’s time for them to step up and get ahead of this if they want to.”

Bush said the Heisman Trust recently asked his attorney to have Bush go to each of the former winners and ask them to sign off on Bush having his trophy returned to him. He said he will never do that.

“I’m ashamed that they asked me to do that,” Bush said. “I would never go and ask for somebody else’s approval, ‘Should I have this award back that I earned with my blood, sweat, and tears?’ I think the Heisman Trust needs to do the right thing.”

Bush says that even though he is being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, he has not been reinstated by the NCAA. And the Heisman Trust has told him they won’t consider returning his trophy until he is.

Bush forfeited the trophy in 2010 after a four-year extra-benefits investigation determined that he and family members accepted impermissible benefits while he was a student-athlete.

Once name, image, and likeness legislation passed in 2021, ESPN and several other outlets asked the NCAA about Bush’s records and participation being restored. In a response, the NCAA suggested Bush engaged in a “pay-for-play” arrangement during his time at USC.

That led Bush to file a defamation suit against the NCAA back in August.

“They (the NCAA) have paid $8 million in a defamation character lawsuit already to settle that and to sweep that under the rug,” Bush said. “That lawsuit directly relates to me because the only way they can penalize USC is through Todd McNair, my former running back coach. If that never happens, they never penalize us because they had no evidence against us.”

Bush said the letter sent to him by the NCAA says he was never charged in the infractions case against USC.

Bush won the Heisman in 2005 after producing 2,218 yards and 18 total touchdowns from scrimmage.