The all-time Heisman Trophy winners list, with Baker Mayfield soon to be officially added
Here’s every player who’s won college football’s most prestigious individual award.
The 82nd Heisman Trophy is set to go out to Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield. He’s joined in New York City by 2016 winner Lamar Jackson of Louisville and Bryce Love of Stanford.
Mayfield had an all-time great passing season and has developed into a master of the air raid offense. He’s led the Sooners to a College Football Playoff semifinal in the Rose Bowl against Georgia. Some voters were turned off by his behavior before and after the whistle, which includes a NSFW dustup with Kansas that led to a two-play suspension against West Virginia. Still, Mayfield was the deserving choice this year.
Here’s the group he joins:
The teams with multiple winners:
- Notre Dame, Ohio State, and USC: 7 each (USC RB Reggie Bush’s was stripped by the NCAA, but it still happened)
- Oklahoma: 6 (counting Mayfield)
- Army, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Nebraska: 3
- Alabama, Georgia, Miami, Navy, Texas, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Yale: 2
The award is (unofficially) for quarterbacks and running backs only, despite allegedly being an all-positions award.
Once Mayfield officially joins, we’ll be up to:
- 42 winners who played running back or fullback
- 34 who played QB
- 8 who played other positions
(There’s some overlap among those positions.)
Fun fact: Jay Berwanger, the first-ever Heisman winner, was also the first-ever NFL Draft pick.
He declined the NFL.

