Exploring Heisman Trophy Favorites Ahead of the 2024 Season
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00:00As far as a Heisman Trophy award, we've had several candidates from the SEC, and it starts
00:10with Dylan Gabriel.
00:12Of course, he is not in the conference, but he is the favorite to win right now at Oregon
00:16at plus 700, so he's 7-1.
00:18And then we go to two players in the SEC, Bill, and that is Carson Beck and Quinn Ewers.
00:23Ewers is definitely going to get the chance to start and play with Texas the entire season.
00:27I guess my concern, Bill, would be is that if things didn't go the way that the Longhorns
00:31want, they could eventually turn to Arch Manning, so I don't know that I would take him at 10-1.
00:37Will Howard is back at TCU, 14-1.
00:39And then, look, a lot of open doors here, I think, for someone to win it.
00:43The last couple of years, Bill, we thought we had the Heisman Trophy award winner early
00:48on, but we saw a lot of pivoting over the course of the year.
00:52I mean, Caleb Williams, I guess, was the outlier.
00:54He was kind of the guy from start to finish, but this is an award that isn't won in September anymore.
00:58Yeah, nobody had Jaden Daniels.
01:01Nobody had Jaden Daniels after Week 1 last year.
01:03They lost to Florida State in the opener.
01:05So anything can happen within the course of a season with the ebbs and flows of it.
01:10I like Jalen Milrow.
01:13Of those quarterbacks you presented, I just think, think of this.
01:16With Caelan DeBoer, Michael Pennix, the last two seasons, 67 touchdowns, 19 interceptions,
01:22and he had a passer rating of around 150.
01:26Jalen Milrow is over a 170 last year in passer rating.
01:29I think he's very efficient, throws the deep ball well, can run, and he's in what's going
01:34to be kind of an off-the-radar offense coming into the season.
01:38I could see Jalen Milrow having a huge year, and if Alabama makes the playoff, he was in
01:42the Heisman Talk last year, remember the big play against Auburn to save the season.
01:47He'll be in the mix.