Heisman Trophy Winners List: All 87 Players Win National College Football’s Most Prestigious Award

Alabama midfielder Bryce Young bring to home 2021 Heisman Trophy after leading the Crimson Tide to College football Playoff in his first year as a starter in Tuscaloosa. The second signal caller threw 4,322 yards and 43 touchdowns with just four interceptions to lead Tide to his eighth SEC championship under Nick Saban. He beat the other finalists, Michigan end defense Aidan Hutchinson, Ohio State midfielder CJ Stroud and Pittsburgh midfielder Kenny Pickett for the award.

Young is the fourth Alabama player to win the award – all since Saban became Alabama’s coach in 2007, and Alabama is now the sixth school in a row to win the Heisman award.

Yale: Larry Kelley (1937) and Clint Frank (1938)
Army: Doc Blanchard (1945) and Glenn Davis (1946)
Ohio State: Archie Griffin (1974 and 1975)
USC: Matt Leinart (2004) and Reggie Bush (2005) *
Oklahoma: Baker Mayfield (2017) and Kyler Murray (2018)
Alabama: DeVonta Smith (2020) and Bryce Young (2021)
(* Bush’s award was vacated in 2010)

Young is the 18th quarterback to bring home Heisman since 2000, and extended the Heisman championship streak to advance to the College Football Knockout Round to its fifth season.

The Tide midfielder is the 87th player to be named a winner of the 88 Heisman awards since 1935 – Archie Griffin remains the only person to have won it twice. Young is just the fifth sophomore to win the award, along with Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, Mark Ingram and Lamar Jackson, and will return to Alabama in 2022 for the chance to join Griffin on that exclusive list.

Let’s take a look at all the Heisman winners from Young in 2021 to Jay Berwanger of Chicago in 1935.

• 2019: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU

• 2016: Lamar Jackson, QB, Louisville

• 2015: Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama

• 2011: Robert Griffin III, QB Baylor

• 2010: Cam Newton, QB, Auburn

• 2009: Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama

• 2008: Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma

• 2007: Tim Tebow, QB, Florida

• 2006: Troy Smith, QB, Ohio State

• 2005: Reggie Bush, RB, USC (award is vacated and trophy goes back to 2010)

• 2004: Matt Leinart, QB, USC

• 2003: Jason White, QB, Oklahoma

• 2002: Carson Palmer, QB, USC

• 2001: Eric Crouch, QB, Nebraska

• 2000: Chris Weinke, QB, Florida State

• 1999: Ron Dayne, RB, Wisconsin

• 1998: Ricky Williams, RB, Texas

• 1997: Charles Woodson, CB, Michigan

• 1996: Danny Wuerffel, QB, Florida

• 1995: Eddie George, RB, Ohio State

• 1994: Rashaan Salaam, RB, Colorado

• 1993: Charlie Ward, QB, Florida State

• 1992: Gino Torretta, QB, Miami

• 1991: Desmond Howard, WR, Michigan

• 1990: Ty Detmer, QB, BYU

• 1989: Andre Ware, QB, Houston

• 1988: Barry Sanders, RB, Oklahoma State

• 1987: Tim Brown, WR, Notre Dame

• 1986: Vinny Testaverde, QB, Miami

• 1985: Bo Jackson, RB, Auburn

• 1984: Doug Flutie, QB, Boston College

• 1983: Mike Rozier, RB, Nebraska

• 1982: Herschel Walker, RB, Georgia

• 1981: Marcus Allen, RB, USC

• 1980: George Rogers, RB, South Carolina

• 1979: Charles White, RB, USC

• 1978: Billy Sims, RB, Oklahoma

• 1977: Earl Campbell, RB, Texas

• 1976: Tony Dorsett, RB, Pitt

• 1975: Archie Griffin, RB, Ohio State

• 1974: Archie Griffin, RB, Ohio State

• 1973: John Cappeletti, RB, Penn State

• 1972: Johnny Rodgers, WR, Nebraska

• 1971: Pat Sullivan, QB, Auburn

• 1970: Jim Plunkett, QB, Stanford

• 1969: Steve Owens, RB, Oklahoma

• 1968: OJ Simpson, RB, USC

• 1967: Gary Beban, QB, UCLA

• 1966: Steve Spurrier, QB, Florida

• 1965: Mike Garrett, RB, USC

• 1964: John Huarte, QB, Notre Dame

• 1963: Roger Staubach, QB, Navy

• 1962: Terry Baker, QB, Oregon State

• 1961: Ernie Davis, RB, Syracuse

• 1960: Joe Bellino, RB, Navy

• 1959: Billy Cannon, RB, LSU

• 1958: Pete Dawkins, RB, Army

• 1957: John David Crow, RB, Texas A&M

• 1956: Paul Hornung, QB, Notre Dame

• 1955: Howard Cassady, RB, Ohio State

• 1954: Alan Ameche, Facebook, Wisconsin

• 1953: John Lattner, RB, Notre Dame Cathedral

• 1952: Ship Billy, RB, Oklahoma

• 1951: Dick Kazmaier, RB, Princeton

• 1950: Vic Janowicz, RB, Ohio State

• 1949: Leon Hart, E, Notre Dame

• 1948: Doak Walker, RB, SMU

• 1947: Johnny Lujack, QB, Notre Dame

• 1946: Glenn Davis, RB, Army

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• 1944: Les Horvath, HB, Ohio State

• 1943: Angelo Bertelli, QB, Notre Dame

• 1942: Frank Sinkwich, RB, Georgia

• 1941: Bruce Smith, RB Minnesota

• 1940: Tom Harmon, RB, Michigan

• 1939: Nile Kinnick, RB, Iowa

• 1938: Davey O’Brien, QB, TCU

• 1937: Clint Frank, HB, Yale

• 1936: Larry Kelley, E, Yale

• 1935: Jay Berwanger, RB, Chicago