The 2021 Heisman Trophy results are in and they have college football media talking. What was the reaction to the newest member of the Heisman house?
Bryce Young is your 2021 Heisman Trophy winner.
And absolutely no one is surprised about that.
Young’s Heisman victory was a foregone conclusion by the time the Heisman ceremony came around on Saturday night. Even so, college football media showered the Alabama quarterback with all his due praise.
How did college football media react to the Heisman Trophy results?
Heisman vote tally:
— Nick Kelly (@_NickKelly) December 12, 2021
Bryce Young (684 first place votes): 2,311 points
Aidan Hutchinson (78): 954
Kenny Pickett (28): 631
CJ Stroud (12): 399
Will Anderson Jr (31): 325
Bryce Young wins the Heisman pic.twitter.com/MMq2Vq1HcZ
— Colton Pouncy (@colton_pouncy) December 12, 2021
Alabama QB Bryce Young wins the Heisman Trophy.
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) December 12, 2021
Can’t have a better closing argument than what he did to Georgia.
Bryce Young wins the Heisman and...
— Matt Brown (@MattBrownCFB) December 12, 2021
*Alabama is 6th school to win Heisman in back-to-back years
*Alabama joins 2004-05 USC and 1944-45-46 Army as only times one school had multiple top-5 finishers in back-to-back years
*Nick Saban joins Frank Leahy as only coaches of 4 winners
Alabama, which didn’t have any Heisman winners prior to 2009, has now produced four of the last 13 Heisman winners, including three of the last seven and each of the last two
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) December 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/overtime/status/1469847916034637825
https://twitter.com/RamsNFL/status/1469848241348898820
There was some argument for the other candidates in the national media.
If you look hard at Aidan Hutchinson's role in Michigan's rise this season, he was slightly more valuable than Bryce Young was to Bama. He'll almost certainly be the draft's No.-1 pick. I'm not saying Bryce shouldn't win the Heisman - he will. But "Hutch" has been way underrated.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) December 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/WoodsFootball/status/1469848136923373574
Bryce Young: best player in college football.
— Josh Rowntree (@JRown32) December 12, 2021
Kenny Pickett: most important player in college football.
The Heisman would have been great for Pickett and Pitt, but it’s just a popularity contest. We all know that Pickett was the most consistently excellent player in the country. He will be remembered as a Pitt legend, and that’s pretty great, too, because Pitt fans never forget.
— Chris Dokish (@ChrisDokish) December 12, 2021
Young was the favorite to win the Heisman after he led Alabama’s demolition of Georgia’s usually outstanding defense in the SEC Championship Game. The quarterback put up 421 yards and threw three touchdown passes while scoring another on the ground in the 41-24 victory.
All told this season, Young threw for 4,322 yards and 43 touchdowns. He completed 68 percent of his passes and had just four interceptions all year. His passer rating was 17.53.
Young is the second consecutive Alabama star to win the Heisman. He followed in the footsteps of wide receiver DeVonta Smith, who won the award last year.
Smith also won a national title before his career with the Crimson Tide was up. Young will try to do the same with Alabama set to face Cincinnati in the College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year’s Eve.
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