NEW YORK — Travis Hunter, a dynamic two-way player who helped Colorado win five more games in 2024 than the previous year while playing nearly 1,400 snaps on offense and defense, won the Heisman Memorial Trophy as college football’s most outstanding player on Saturday night.
Hunter is Colorado’s second Heisman winner, following running back Rashaan Salaam, who won it in 1994.
Hunter’s win temporarily broke a quarterback stranglehold on the award, as 20 of the 23 previous winners this century played QB. Along with Hunter, Alabama running backs Mark Ingram (2009), Derrick Henry (2015), and Crimson Tide wide receiver DeVonta Smith (2020) are the only non-quarterback winners since 2000.
