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College playoff football teams get Heisman Trophy finalists

NEW YORK (AP) — Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts and Ohio State teammates Justin Fields and Chase Young will join LSU quarterback Joe Burrow as Heisman Trophy finalists.

The top vote-getters for college football’s top player of the year award were announced Monday, and three of them were quarterbacks who transferred to their current schools.

Burrow is the clear front-runner to win the Heisman on Saturday night in New York after a record-breaking season, leading the Tigers (13-0) to the top seed in the College Football Playoff.

The other finalists were not so obvious even after all the games had been played. Fields, a QB, and Young, a defensive end, are the first teammates to be finalists since Oklahoma had QB Baker Mayfield and receiver Dede Westbrook at the ceremony in 2016.

Quarterbacks have dominated the Heisman over the last two decades, winning 16 of the last 19 trophies. The last two winning quarterbacks, the Sooners’ Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield, were both transfers, and this year will likely make it three straight.

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