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Way-Too-Early Heisman Candidates for 2021 College Football Season

If you're the type to bet on Heisman odds almost an entire year before the next ceremony, recent history suggests you might want to avoid the favorites.

DeVonta Smith was getting 80-1 odds this time a year ago. Joe Burrow was famously a 200-1 long shot the summer before he won the 2019 Heisman. And while Kyler Murray was at least somewhat on the Heisman radar in January 2018, his 35-1 odds put him in a tie for 15th-most likely to win.

If you're trying to throw a dart in that general direction, we'll get things started here with a list of deep sleepers and less-deep sleepers, before diving into what we would consider the eight most likely Heisman candidates for 2021.