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Young, Walker, Pickett Chase Heisman Glory

NCAA Week 12 - In recent seasons, the Heisman Trophy race has largely been defined by domination. From 2016 through 2019, all four players to win the award (Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, and Joe Burrow) were quarterbacks—three of them on playoff teams—and all earned over 75% of the vote, with Burrow's 93.8% mark making him the clearest winner in history. 2020 brought a deviation from the norm, with wide receiver DeVonta Smith taking only 66.8% of the possible points in his landmark win, but he still built out a comfortable margin of nearly 700 points over runner-up Trevor Lawrence.