THE JOKES ARE easy enough to make between "old man" Haynes King and his position coach, the oldest man to ever win the Heisman Trophy.

Twenty-five years ago, when Chris Weinke took home the award as a 28-year-old senior, his age became a nonstop topic of conversation. Today, older quarterbacks dot the college football landscape, their advanced ages met with a collective shrug.

"Sometimes I try and mess with him and say, 'I couldn't quite catch you on the age, but I tried. I gave it my all," the 24-year-old King said of Weinke, his quarterbacks coach at Georgia Tech .

Older players have been normalized, thanks to the transfer portal and the pandemic, which granted freshmen an extra year of eligibility if they wanted it. Nearly 40 quarterbacks from the 2020 class came back this year

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