Heisman Trophy winners list: All 87 players to take home college football's most prestigious award

Alabama's Bryce Young took home the award in 2021, giving Alabama back-to-back winners for the first time

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young took home the 2021 Heisman Trophy after leading the Crimson Tide to the College Football Playoff in his first year as the starter in Tuscaloosa. The sophomore signal-caller threw for 4,322 yards and 43 touchdowns against just four interceptions in leading the Tide to an eighth SEC championship under Nick Saban. He beat out the other finalists, Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud and Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett for the award.

Young is the fourth Alabama player to win the award -- all of which have come since Saban became the Alabama coach in 2007, and Alabama is now the sixth school to have back-to-back Heisman winners. 

Yale: Larry Kelley (1937) and Clint Frank (1938)
Army: Doc Blanchard (1945) and Glenn Davis (1946)
Ohio State: Archie Griffin (1974 and 1975)
USC: Matt Leinart (2004) and Reggie Bush (2005)*
Oklahoma: Baker Mayfield (2017) and Kyler Murray (2018)
Alabama: DeVonta Smith (2020) and Bryce Young (2021) 
(*Bush's award was vacated in 2010)

Young is the 18th quarterback to take home the Heisman since 2000, and extends a streak of Heisman winners to advance to the College Football Playoff to a fifth season. 

The Tide quarterback is the 87th player to have his name called as the winner in the 88 times the Heisman has been awarded since 1935 -- Archie Griffin remains the only two-time winner. Young is just the fifth sophomore to win the award, joining Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, Mark Ingram, and Lamar Jackson, and will be back at Alabama in 2022 with a chance to potentially join Griffin on that exclusive list. 

Let's take a look at all of the Heisman winners from Young in 2021 all the way back to Chicago's Jay Berwanger in 1935.

• 2021: Bryce Young, QB, Alabama

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• 2020: DeVonta Smith, WR, Alabama

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• 2019: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU

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• 2018: Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma

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• 2017: Baker Mayfield, QB, Oklahoma

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• 2016: Lamar Jackson, QB, Louisville

• 2015: Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama

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• 2014: Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon

• 2013: Jameis Winston, QB, Florida State

• 2012: Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M

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• 2011: Robert Griffin III, QB Baylor

• 2010: Cam Newton, QB, Auburn

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• 2009: Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama

• 2008: Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma

• 2007: Tim Tebow, QB, Florida

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• 2006: Troy Smith, QB, Ohio State

• 2005: Reggie Bush, RB, USC (award vacated and trophy returned 2010)

• 2004: Matt Leinart, QB, USC

• 2003: Jason White, QB, Oklahoma

• 2002: Carson Palmer, QB, USC

• 2001: Eric Crouch, QB, Nebraska

• 2000: Chris Weinke, QB, Florida State

• 1999: Ron Dayne, RB, Wisconsin

• 1998: Ricky Williams, RB, Texas

• 1997: Charles Woodson, CB, Michigan

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• 1996: Danny Wuerffel, QB, Florida

• 1995: Eddie George, RB, Ohio State

• 1994: Rashaan Salaam, RB, Colorado

• 1993: Charlie Ward, QB, Florida State

• 1992: Gino Torretta, QB, Miami

• 1991: Desmond Howard, WR, Michigan

• 1990: Ty Detmer, QB, BYU

• 1989: Andre Ware, QB, Houston

• 1988: Barry Sanders, RB, Oklahoma State

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• 1987: Tim Brown, WR, Notre Dame

• 1986: Vinny Testaverde, QB, Miami

• 1985: Bo Jackson, RB, Auburn

• 1984: Doug Flutie, QB, Boston College

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• 1983: Mike Rozier, RB, Nebraska

• 1982: Herschel Walker, RB, Georgia

• 1981: Marcus Allen, RB, USC

• 1980: George Rogers, RB, South Carolina

• 1979: Charles White, RB, USC

• 1978: Billy Sims, RB, Oklahoma

• 1977: Earl Campbell, RB, Texas

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• 1976: Tony Dorsett, RB, Pitt

• 1975: Archie Griffin, RB, Ohio State

• 1974: Archie Griffin, RB, Ohio State

• 1973: John Cappelletti, RB, Penn State

• 1972: Johnny Rodgers, WR, Nebraska

• 1971: Pat Sullivan, QB, Auburn

• 1970: Jim Plunkett, QB, Stanford

• 1969: Steve Owens, RB, Oklahoma

• 1968: O.J. Simpson, RB, USC

• 1967: Gary Beban, QB, UCLA

• 1966: Steve Spurrier, QB, Florida

• 1965: Mike Garrett, RB, USC

• 1964: John Huarte, QB, Notre Dame

• 1963: Roger Staubach, QB, Navy

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• 1962: Terry Baker, QB, Oregon State

• 1961: Ernie Davis, RB, Syracuse

• 1960: Joe Bellino, RB, Navy

• 1959: Billy Cannon, RB, LSU

• 1958: Pete Dawkins, RB, Army

• 1957: John David Crow, RB, Texas A&M

• 1956: Paul Hornung, QB, Notre Dame

• 1955: Howard Cassady, RB, Ohio State

• 1954: Alan Ameche, FB, Wisconsin

• 1953: John Lattner, RB, Notre Dame

• 1952: Billy Vessels, RB, Oklahoma

• 1951: Dick Kazmaier, RB, Princeton

• 1950: Vic Janowicz, RB, Ohio State

• 1949: Leon Hart, E, Notre Dame

• 1948: Doak Walker, RB, SMU

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• 1947: Johnny Lujack, QB, Notre Dame

• 1946: Glenn Davis, RB, Army

• 1945: Doc Blanchard, FB, Army

• 1944: Les Horvath, HB, Ohio State

• 1943: Angelo Bertelli, QB, Notre Dame

• 1942: Frank Sinkwich, RB, Georgia

• 1941: Bruce Smith, RB Minnesota

• 1940: Tom Harmon, RB, Michigan

• 1939: Nile Kinnick, RB, Iowa

• 1938: Davey O'Brien, QB, TCU

• 1937: Clint Frank, HB, Yale

• 1936: Larry Kelley, E, Yale

• 1935: Jay Berwanger, RB, Chicago