When South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers was running through Clemson defenders in the Palmetto Bowl and scoring the only two touchdowns for the Gamecocks that day, the Heisman hype for 2024 was at an all-time high. However, it was a little too late for the hype he was getting as the Heisman Trophy was already between two stars in college football.
The 2024 Heisman Trophy has officially been awarded in the 2024 season, and congratulations are in order for Colorado's Travis Hunter, who is the first two-way player to win the award since Charles Woodson.
Now that the award has been given out for the 2024 season, fans and analysts just can't help themselves from looking at the 2025 Heisman odds. Sometimes, this is a difficult thing to look at as players could decide to transfer. which could take them out of a solid offensive system, or they could choose to head to the NFL and try their hand with the pros.
It is always interesting to look at the odds for the next season because it involves players who just didn't perform well enough to become a finalist but did enough to draw some attention. Sellers did exactly that with his play after coming back from his ankle injury early in the season.
Even before his ankle injury, especially in the first half of the LSU game, Sellers was garnering the attention of the media and looking like a potential Heisman candidate, even as a redshirt freshman in his first season as a starter.
ESPN has released their way-to-early 2025 Heisman candidates, and Sellers found himself on a list with many other big-name players who put up good numbers this season. Sellers is one of eight quarterbacks on this list of 14 players to watch next season. There are a lot of complaints about the Heisman Trophy being mainly a quarterback award, but Sellers has done a lot to deserve it.
Sellers had a phenomenal 2024 season, a season in which he did miss a game and a half due to an ankle injury and probably even came back a game too early. He finished the season with 2,274 passing yards, 17 passing touchdowns, and only three interceptions. He was also a nightmare on the ground with 655 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns, which included the two against No. 12 Clemson at the end of the season.
If the 2024 season was simply a glimpse at what Sellers' 2025 season is going to look like, South Carolina fans are simply shaking with excitement for next year. Clearly, it also has analyst and the media excited as well or else they would not have him on a Heisman watch for next season.