Stetson Bennett, Max Duggan, C.J Stroud, and Caleb Williams are your 2022 Heisman Trophy finalists
Now that conference championship have been won and the College Football Playoff is set, the next order of business of this college football season is figuring out just who will join the most exclusive of exclusive clubs.
Who will join the likes of Bo Jackson, Barry Sanders, Desmond Howard, Charles Woodson, Tim Tebow, Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III, Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow and Bryce Young — among many others — as college football's Heisman Trophy winner for the 2022 season?
We're just a few days away from the Heisman Trophy presentation ceremony in New York, and now we know which players will be in attendance.
It's going to be a quarterback-off.
Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, TCU quarterback Max Duggan, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud and USC quarterback Caleb Williams have all been nominated for the Heisman Trophy.
While individual cases can be made for each player and all four young men have certainly played extremely important roles for some of the best teams in college football, being that they're all quarterbacks — this race could be pretty easy to handicap.
Here's how each player stacks up.
Caleb Williams: 4,075 yards and 37 touchdowns with four interceptions (66.1 CMP%), 10 rushing touchdowns.
C.J. Stroud: 3,340 yards and 37 touchdowns with six interceptions (66.2 CMP%).
Max Duggan: 3,321 yards and 30 touchdowns with four interceptions (64.9 CMP%), six rushing touchdowns.
Stetson Bennett: 3,425 yards and 20 touchdowns with six interceptions (68.1 CMP%), seven rushing touchdowns.
By the numbers, Williams appears to be the shoo-in. His 47 total touchdowns leave Duggan's impressive 36 total touchdowns in the dirt. With that said, his USC team is the only one of the four represented that won't be in the College Football Playoff, and Williams' last game, a loss to Utah in the Pac-12 championship, will leave some question marks in the mind of voters.
He did throw for 363 yards and three touchdowns in that contest, but an injury in the second half made him look pedestrian at best, and he did throw a game-sealing interception while being sacked seven times.
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