• USA TODAY Sports preseason glance at the Heisman favorites is loaded with quarterbacks. • Texas QB Arch Manning finally becomes the Longhorns' unquestioned starter. • Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith is the strongest non-QB contender for the Heisman Trophy entering the 2025 season.

One year after Travis Hunter became the most unconventional Heisman Trophy winner in the award’s history by virtue of his both-ways brilliance for Colorado, look for the 2025 race to drift back toward tradition by focusing on a class of very specific and traditional contenders: high-profile and productive quarterbacks playing for the nation’s best teams.

With the regular season just weeks away, the closest thing to an alternative option is Ohio State sophomore Jeremiah Smith, who after one year with the Buck

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