Complete the 2024 Heisman results

University of Colorado junior cornerback/wide receiver Travis Hunter was announced as the 90th winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy by ESPN on Saturday (Dec. 14) at the 2024 Heisman Trophy ceremony presented by Nissan. new York

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty finished second, followed by third-ranked Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel and fourth-ranked Miami quarterback Cam Ward

Hunter is Colorado’s second Heisman winner and the Buffaloes’ first since the late running back Rashaan Salaam (1994). He is the first full-time two-way player to win the Heisman since the early 1960s and the first to win the award since then while playing significant minutes on both sides of the ball Charles Woodson (1997).

Hunter, also the fifth player to win the Heisman as a full-time receiver, scored 2,231 points. Jeanty finished with 2,017 points, Gabriel with 516 and Ward with 229.

The 6-foot-1, 185-pound player from Suwanee, Georgia, is the 2024 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and earned All-Big 12 First Team honors as both a defensive back and wide receiver. Defensively, he had 31 tackles, 11 pass breakups, four interceptions, a conference-best 15 passes defended (fifth nationally) and forced a game-winning fumble.

Hunter also led the conference with 92 receptions and 14 receiving touchdowns and finished the conference with 1,152 receiving yards, second in the Big 12. Nationally, he is second in receiving touchdowns, fifth in receptions per game (7, 7) and sixth in receiving yards per game (96.0). Hunter leads the country with 21 receptions for 20 yards or more. He twice had three touchdown receptions in a game, had ten or more catches in a game three times, and had 100 or more receiving yards in a game seven times.

Earlier this week, Hunter won the Walter Camp, Bednarik and Biletnikoff Awards, becoming the first player to win national honors on both offense and defense.

Hunter’s 92 receptions and 1,152 receiving yards are both the second-most by a Heisman receiver behind Alabama’s 2020 winner DeVonta Smith’s 98 receptions for 1,511 yards. Hunter’s 14 TD trails only Smith and the 1991 winner Desmond Howard (17) in Heisman-winning seasons.

Hunter is the sixth player in the last eight years to win the award after transferring. He is the first Heisman winner to begin his career in the Football Championship Series (FCS). Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, he is the fifth Heisman winner from the Sunshine State and the first since Lamar Jackson.

He is the first junior to win the award since Oklahoma Kyler Murray (2018), the Big 12’s first Heisman winner since Murray and the first winner from a current Big 12 school since Baylor Robert Griffin III (2011).

Hunter is also the first defensive back to be ranked in the top five since LSU CB Tyrann Mathieu (2011, fifth). Hunters Colorado head coach Deion Sanders finished eighth in the 1988 Heisman voting as a Florida State cornerback.

Jeanty is Boise State’s top graduate in the Heisman voting and its second finalist. Fellow Bronco Kellen Moore was a three-time Heisman top-10 finisher and finished fourth in the finals in 2010.

Gabriel is Oregon’s second consecutive third-rounder, following Bo Nix (2023). Gabriel and Nix are Oregon’s best finishers since the winner Marcus Mariota (2014). Ward is Miami’s best player since fourth-place finisher Willis McGahee (2002).

Ballots for the 2024 Heisman Trophy went to 928 voters, including 870 members of the media, our 57 living Heisman winners and a total fan vote presented by Nissan, the lead partner of the Heisman Trophy. All ballots were submitted electronically to Deloitte’s independent accountants.

Rounding out the top 10 in the 2024 Heisman voting were fifth-ranked senior Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo, sixth-ranked senior Army quarterback Bryson Daily, seventh-ranked senior Penn State tight end Tyler Warren and eighth-ranked senior Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the Indiana’s ninth-ranked senior quarterback Kurtis Rourke and Syracuse’s 10th-ranked senior quarterback Kyle McCord.