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The Heisman Finalists: Four Different Roads, Same Star Power

How Stetson Bennett, Max Duggan, C.J. Stroud and Caleb Williams made the most of their different opportunities to contend for college football’s biggest award.

There are no easy paths to New York City as a Heisman Trophy finalist, but there are a variety of them. The four college football quarterbacks who will be there Saturday night for the awarding of the most prestigious individual honor in sports arrived via four distinctly different routes.

Some are more romantic and unlikely, others you could see coming. Whiz kids and late bloomers, can’t-miss prodigies and off-radar underdogs, they occasionally can all arrive at the same place.