Kyler Murray

Murray's 2018 was the ninth-overall MLB pick spending a Saturday autumn winning the Heisman by a margin nobody expected against a runner-up (Tua) playing the best season of his life. The numbers — 4,361 yards through the air, 1,001 yards on the ground, a 199.2 passer rating that was the second-best in FBS history at the time, 54 total touchdowns, an Orange Bowl semifinal loss to Alabama where he passed for 308 in defeat — are the actual best CFP-era statistical year by a quarterback besides Burrow 2019. The first-overall NFL pick six months later was the receipt. Riley's Oklahoma identity — quarterback as throne, three Heismans in four years — runs through this season.