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NEW YORK — Travis Hunter, a dynamic two-way player who helped Colorado win five more games in 2024 than the previous year while playing nearly 1,400 snaps on offense and defense, won the Heisman Memorial Trophy as college football’s most outstanding player on Saturday night.
Hunter is Colorado’s second Heisman winner, following running back Rashaan Salaam, who won it in 1994.
Hunter’s win temporarily broke a quarterback stranglehold on the award, as 20 of the 23 previous winners this century played QB. Along with Hunter, Alabama running backs Mark Ingram (2009), Derrick Henry (2015), and Crimson Tide wide receiver DeVonta Smith (2020) are the only non-quarterback winners since 2000.
Hunter received 552 first-place votes and 2,231 total points. Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty was second in the voting (309, 2,017), Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel came in third (24, 516) and Miami quarterback Cam Ward was fourth (6, 229), and Hunter was on 93.32% of the total ballots and won five of the six voting regions.
Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo was fifth in the balloting, followed by Army quarterback Bryson Daily, Penn State tight end Tyler Warren, and Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders. Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke and Syracuse quarterback Kyle McCord rounded out the top 10.
Travis Hunter poses with the Heisman Trophy.
The 2024 season caps an impressive campaign for Hunter, who already won the Biletnikoff Award (best receiver), Bednarik Award (best defensive player), Hornung Award (most versatile player, which he won for the second straight season), Walter Camp Award (most outstanding player), and was named the Associated Press Player of the Year. He was not a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the best defensive back, drawing the ire of his head coach, Deion Sanders.
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Publish date : 2024-12-15 01:59:00
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