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With preseason rankings out and the first week of the college football season just days away, the Heisman hype has already begun.
The Heisman Trophy is the most prestigious award in all of college sports and has achieved legendary status since it was won.
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Let’s take a look at the 2022 Heisman Prize odds. According to FOXBet.
CJ Stroud, QB, Ohio: +250
Primarily a quarterback award, the Heisman Trophy consistently selects the best quarterback on one of the country’s top teams.
After a year as a starter, Stroud is looking to improve on his stellar freshman season. Stroud threw for 4,435 yards and 44 touchdowns for just six interceptions, leading the nation’s leading offense (he 561.2 yards per game) to his 11-2 record, and rose to Utah in his bowl. won the He finished fourth in the Heisman voting.
Stroud will lose 10th and 11th picks Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave respectively in the 2022 NFL Draft. Ryan Day and Ohio simply reload. Jaxon Smith-Njigba (+3000) became Stroud’s number one target in 2021 after he caught 95 balls for 1,606 yards and nine touchdowns.
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Running back TreVeyon Henderson, who is +4000 to get Heisman, will be another weapon in the Buckeye offense. Henderson is coming to the end of a great freshman season averaging nearly 7 yards per carry and scoring his 15 rushing touchdowns.
Ohio State enters the season as the No. 2 team in the nation and is a prime contender to make the Big 10. Stroud will stay at the top of the Heisman heap if Ohio State is one of his four teams in the college football playoffs.
Bryce Young, QB, Alabama: +350
The current Heisman Trophy winner isn’t likely to win it again in 2022, but expects Young to become just the second college football player to win two Heisman Trophies in his college career. There should be no people.
Three of the past seven Heisman Trophy winners, including the previous two, are from Alabama.
To win back-to-back Heisman Trophy, Young will have to find a way to stand out even more than last year, when he threw for 4,872 yards, 47 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Alabama’s schedule leaves the Crimson Tide with only three ranked teams going into the season, and only one in the top 10, so Young should be able to join the national championship mix once again.
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However, quarterbacks who return to school after winning the Heisman Trophy have fared poorly, with seven quarterbacks in the last 20 years returning for their second award. None of the seven finished higher than third in the Heisman poll the year after winning the award.
youth is better and better, alabama mixed As always, under head coach Nick Saban, Young has the best shot of anyone to become a second-time winner of the prestigious award.
Caleb Williams, QB, USC: +800
The player to watch in 2022 is Caleb Williams.
Williams is Enter your first season at USC But he does so with a familiar face as his head coach. When Lincoln He Riley flew into his USC from Oklahoma, Williams also came along, and hopes for the Trojans quickly ran high.
Williams stood in for struggling Spencer Ratler in OU, and tallied 1,912 yards, 21 touchdowns and 4 interceptions in 11 games. He leads the Big 12 in his 2021 passer efficiency, and there’s no reason to believe he’ll take a step back now that he’s playing in the weaker Pac-12 conference.
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Jeff Clark OutKick Sports Betting Expertstold Fox News Digital that Williams has as good a case as the quarterback for the 2022 Heisman Trophy.
“First, Williams set the Pro Football Focus (PFF) record for highest-performing freshman QB, passing former Clemson Tigers QB Trevor Lawrence,” Clark said. “Second, Williams will move from the Big XII and Oklahoma Sooners with his QB whispering coach Lincoln Riley. Williams will play in the much softer Pac-12 conference in 2022-23. In addition, Riley has already coached two Heisman Award-winning QBs (Baker Mayfield in 2017 and Kyler Murray in 2018).
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“Finally, Williams has insane talent around him. PFF rates USC’s offensive line third all season. Trojans also score 2021 Fred Biletnikov WR Jordan Addison and the second-best rusher in the Pac-12 for 2021. , Oregon Ducks RB Travis Dye. You will almost certainly be invited to the Heisman Trophy ceremony.”
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Will Anderson Jr., OLB, Alabama: +2200
No defensive player has won the Heisman Trophy since Charles Woodson in 1997, but last year offered a glimmer of hope that a defensive player could join the conversation.
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Michigan defensive end Aiden Hutchinson finished second in the 2021 balloting.
The leader of Alabama’s defense last year led the nation in sacks (17.5) and tackles for losses (34.5), hoping to prove that only offensive players can win the Heisman Trophy. increase.
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“That’s what I want to do,” Anderson told ESPN when asked about changing voters’ minds.
“It’s really not just for me, it’s for other defensive players to know that we have a chance,” he said. I have.”
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Other players to watch:
Bijan Robinson Jr., RB, TX: +2200
Dillon Gabriel, QB, Oklahoma: +2500
Quinn Ewers, QB, TX: +3300
Tyler Van Dyke, QB, Miami (FL): +3500