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Who’s going to win the Heisman Trophy in 2018?

I have absolutely no idea what I see in Kyler Murray, except a guy who had the chance to play behind last year’s Heisman winner in Baker Mayfield and chose to give up playing professional baseball for a season (he was drafted in the first round by the Athletics) and decided to keep playing college football.

That’s the kind of drive I want to see from a Heisman winner, and while the junior might not YET have the stats to prove his worth, the small sample size was good. He finished the season-opening blowout against UTEP by going 10-of-11 on passes for 149 yards and a TD.