NFL fans will recognize plenty of familiar names on our list of the 10 most recent Heisman Trophy winners. If we narrow that list to the quarterbacks, that group brings good signs for the three quarterbacks who are finalists this year if they win tonight.
Among those seven quarterbacks, five (Caleb Williams, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield) have been selected No. 1 overall in the NFL draft. Two (Murray and Jayden Daniels) have won the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
The only player not to fall into either of those categories is Lamar Jackson, who has the only two NFL MVPs among that group. All of the quarterbacks except for Williams and Young have led their teams to the NFL playoffs, with Williams likely to do so this year — his Chicago Bears currently have a 70-percent chance of making it to the postseason, per The Athletic’s NFL Playoff Simulator.
