Is Dillon Gabriel a Top Choice for the Heisman Trophy 2024?

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00:00Earlier this week a co-favorite alongside Georgia's Carson Beck now Gabriel is all by himself at a plus

00:07550 price Joe here in the preseason on this first Saturday of

00:122024 is Dylan Gabriel deserving of being a solo short favorite to win a Heisman Trophy in his first year at Oregon

00:19I don't know. It's a lot of pressure right now

00:20I think he's

00:22Deserving to be in the conversation

00:23But he's taking over for a quarterback in terms of Bo Nix that threw for 45 touchdowns three interceptions that we talked about the completion

00:31Percentage in terms of FPS one of the best all-time at 78 percent early in the middle part of the year

00:37Bo Nix was up over 80 percent at 81 for much of the regular season

00:41So this is a lot of pressure, but I understand that Dylan Gabriel 30 touchdowns only six interceptions

00:47He can also run in terms of the RPO game Kevin is battle testing

00:52He gave Texas their only regular season loss in terms of the Red River

00:56Rivalry he's a quarterback that comes with experience and it's gonna have one of the better offenses in the Big Ten

01:02So people are gonna roll their eyes when I say this, but I'm right the selling point on Dylan

01:08Gabriel is the guy he is replacing would have won this award last year under the current format

01:14As Oregon made the college football playoff and LSU would have not made the college football playoff

01:19And that is one of the changes is now in the expanded format, I think that we have

01:25More contenders. I think it's more open. But if you are not in the CFP

01:31There is no way you win this. I cannot imagine

01:35I mean again, we then we gave it last year to Jaden Daniels and LSU who was 13th in the final CFP poll, but

01:43We there were only four teams that made it so it didn't feel as nightmarish

01:47I was the only person in the world that understood that that team was not winning any of the games that mattered even if he lit

01:52Up army, but that's okay. That's okay. The selling point on Gabriel is

01:58They project to be the best offense in college football

02:00And they are the third biggest favorite to make the college football playoff and that is this it's very simple and coherent argument to make