Honorable Mention: Joe Burrow
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Joe Burrow went from the Ohio high school football star who couldn’t crack the starting lineup of his home state Ohio State Buckeyes, to the winner of the 2019 Heisman Trophy, winning said award by the largest margin in the history of the award.
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One season removed from transferring to LSU after losing the starting quarterback battle at Ohio State to Dwayne Haskins, Burrow set the all-time SEC record for single-season passing yards (4,715) and the conference record for single-season touchdowns (48) as the quarterback of the Bayou Bengals, finishing things off by helping LSU defeat hated nemesis Alabama, en route to earning the top seed in the 2019 College Football Playoffs.
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