With Week 12 of the 2025 college football season in the books, DraftKings Sportsbook has updated its odds for who will win the 2025 Heisman Trophy. With cornerback/wide receiver Travis Hunter being the first non-quarterback winner since DeVonta Smith in 2020, another quarterback run is likely. Quarterbacks make up the top six in the odds, led by Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza (+100), Ohio State’s Julian Sayin (+200), Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed (+550 ), and Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia (+1500). Rising from seventh to fifth-best odds is Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton, who comes in at 25-1 odds, up from 33-1.
That puts Stockton ahead of Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King (33-1), Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love (40-1), and Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith (60-1) in the updated odds. In 10 games, Stockton has completed 203-of-287 of his passes (70.7%) for 2,269 yards, 19 touchdowns, and three interceptions, rushing 83 times for 350 yards and eight touchdowns, with one lost fumble. Stockton is tied with Reed for third in the SEC with a 156.9 passer rating, and his 90.1 QBR is third in the country, behind Sayin (90.4) and USC’s Jayden Maiava (90.7).
Stockton’s 1.0 interception percentage for this season is currently second-best in program history, behind Greyson Lambert’s 0.78% (two interceptions in 256 attempts). In leading his team to victory over Texas, Stockton completed 24-of-29 passes for 229 yards, throwing four touchdown passes, and rushing for 29 yards and a touchdown. Stockton accounted for as many touchdowns as he had incomplete passes.
Head coach Kirby Smart discussed Stockton following the win.
“Man, he just leads, he does a great job,” Smart said. “I mean, the run to me, to ice the game, I think it was second long, I don’t know what it was, they ran the sweep, quarterback sweep.I thought he was gonna get three or four. And he just stuck his foot in the ground and just ran through people and got a first down. That was a huge play in the game. His decision-making’s been good. And look, I mean, he is a great player. He is a great competitor. But he also benefits from a really good offensive line. And Mike and the offensive staff, I mean, people don’t give our offensive staff enough credit. I mean, they do a tremendous job, and we’re hard to defend. There’s three touchdowns on a quarterback run, and then all of a sudden he’s running the quarterback run. And there’s a guy wide open in the back of the end zone that ran right by you that didn’t block you, and I mean, it’s a great play. And you can’t do them unless you’ve got a quarterback like Gunner that can execute with the words and the language and command the huddle and manage the clock. He’s playing at a high level and a high clip right now. And we gotta keep getting him better and getting more tools to work with around him.”
Georgia had a Heisman finalist in 2022, when quarterback Stetson Bennett finished fourth in the voting before earning his third and fourth College Football Playoff offensive MVP awards en route to leading his team to back-to-back CFP National Championships.