Tennessee Football: Where Hendon Hooker finished in the Heisman voting
Hendon Hooker finished 124 votes short of being a Heisman Trophy finalist, coming in fifth place for the award. Tennessee’s redshirt senior quarterback received 226 total votes, with 17 first-place votes, 47 second-place votes and 81 third-place votes.
Caleb Williams, the Southern Cal quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, won with 2,031 total votes, receiving 544 for first place. TCU’s Max Duggan came in second with 1,420 total votes, including 188 for first and 357 for second.
Ohio State’s CJ Stroud finished in third, with 539 votes, and Georgia’s Stetson Bennett received 226 votes, finishing fourth among the fourth Heisman finalists.
Four former Vols have finished runner-up in Heisman Trophy voting
Six times in Heisman history Tennessee has produced a player that has finished fourth or higher in the voting. Four former Vols have finished second for the trophy, given annually by the Downtown Athletic Club in New York to college football’s most outstanding football player.
Peyton Manning finished second to Michigan’s Charles Woodson in 1997, with 1,543 votes. Woodson received 1,815 votes. Manning finished eighth in 1996 and sixth in 1995.
Heath Shuler finished second in 1993 with 688 votes, losing out to Florida State’s Charlie Ward. Johnny Majors received 994 votes in 1956 but Notre Dame’s Paul Hornung won, receiving 1,066 votes. Hank Lauricella received 424 votes in 1951 but lost in a landslide to Princeton’s Dick Kazmaier, who received 1,777 votes.
Tennessee tailback George Cafego finished fourth in the voting in 1939, after coming in seventh in 1938.
Hooker was also Maxwell Award finalist and is a finalist for the Manning Award. He was named Associated Press SEC Offensive Player of the Year last week.
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He passed for 2,945 yards, 31 touchdowns and three interceptions during a breakout redshirt junior season with the Vols last year, adding 616 yards and five touchdowns on the ground. This season he passed for 3,135 yards and 27 touchdowns, with just two interceptions, and ran for 430 yards and five more rushing touchdowns.
Hooker’s redshirt senior season was cut short after he tore his ACL in the fourth quarter of Tennessee’s loss at South Carolina last month. He led the Vols to an 8-0 start this season as the team climbed all the way to No. 1 in the College Football Playoff Top 25 on November 1.
Up Next: No. 6 Tennessee vs. No. 7 Clemson, Orange Bowl, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN
Tennessee (10-2), after finishing sixth in the final CFP Top 25 rankings on Sunday, will face No. 7 Clemson (11-2) in the Capital One Orange Bowl on December 30 (8 p.m. ET; TV: ESPN) at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
Hooker accounted for three or more touchdowns in seven of his 11 games this season. He had four total touchdowns three times and had a season-high five touchdowns in the 52-49 win over Alabama at Neyland Stadium in October.
In his two seasons with the Vols, he accounted for 7,126 yards of total offense and 68 touchdowns, throwing just five interceptions in from his 632 pass attempts.
He set a new Tennessee program record with a passing touchdown in 20 straight games.
