efficient with the ball and is playing very well. But is it really Heisman worthy (especially when looking at raw numbers)? If you look at the top of the field, there is a large gap between the #4 QB and the #5 QB in their QBR rankings. In fact, the gap between #4 (Burrow from LSU) and #5 (Perry from Navy), is larger than the gap between #5 and #13.

I guess what I'm saying is that while Huntley has had a nice season (so far), there are only 4 QB's that really belong in the Heisman conversation for me, and that's Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts, Justin Fields, and Joe Burrow.


One more thing. A bit thing that leads a player to win the Heisman is having that "Heisman moment" - a big performance against a big team (e.g. Ty Detmer's performance against Miami). If you look at Utah's schedule, they have only played 2 teams that rank above #90 in Defensive SP+: BYU and USC. Here are his performances in those games.

vs. BYU (#64): 13/16 106 yds passing; 3 rushes 39 yds; 0 TDs QBR: 41.9
vs. USC (#56): 22/30 310 yds passing; 18 rushes 60 yds; 1 TD; QBR: 47.9

Obviously Huntley has had very good performances against teams with really bad defenses (like Washington St., Oregon St., and Northern Illinois). But so far he hasn't really proven anything against teams with even an average defense.

Utah's next 3 teams are against the 3 toughest defenses they will play this year (#26 Arizona, #21 Cal, #33 Washington). If Huntley is able to play at a high level against those teams then I guess some talk about post-season accolades can start to begin. But I suspect that his super-efficient numbers may take a bit of a dip over the next three weeks and at that point anybody who was putting Huntley and Heisman in the same sentence will look a bit foolish.