Austin Native, Lake Travis Alum Baker Mayfield Snags Heisman

AUSTIN, TX — Austin native and Lake Travis High School alum Baker Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy in a landslide Saturday night.

Mayfield collected 732 first-place votes and 2,398 points in the voting totals. Stanford running back Bryce Love was second with 1,300 points (75 first-place votes). Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, last year's Heisman winner, was third with 793 (47).Mayfield yielded the third-highest percentage of possible points received (86 percent) since 1950, behind only Ohio State's Troy Smith (2006) and Oregon's Marcus Mariota (2014).

In clinching the honor, the Oklahoma quarterback became the first player to win the coveted prize who began his career as a walk-on at Texas Tech. He captured the 83rd Heisman Trophy in a landslide victory, collecting 732 first-place votes and 2,398 points in the voting totals. Stanford running back Bryce Love was second with 1,300 points (75 first-place votes). Last year's Heisman winner, Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, was third with 793 (47).

As ESPN noted, Mayfield yielded the third-highest percentage of possible points received (86 percent) since 1950 — the year the NCAA began allowing athletic scholarships — behind only Ohio State's Troy Smith (2006) and Oregon's Marcus Mariota (2014).

Ever the hometown boy done good, Mayfield acknowledged his high school coaches in his remarks: “I think they won their playoff game tonight, so shout-out to Lake Travis.”

Mayfield became the first senior to win the Heisman since Smith in 2006. ESPN noted. Earlier this week, he won the Davey O'Brien (best quarterback) and Maxwell (player of the year) awards. The Associated Press and Walter Camp also both named him their player of the year.

"This is unbelievable for me, being up here among these greats," Mayfield said, according to the report. "It's something that words can't even describe. God has put me in this position that I'm so blessed, and a lot of times I wonder why. But it's such an honor to be up here. It's unbelievable."

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