Before they were stars: Heisman winners as recruits

High school football’s national signing day took place early last month, as prospects from all over the country officially announced their college destination.

There’s a good chance that, at some point in the future, one of those hundreds of players who signed will go on to win the Heisman Trophy. With that in mind, we thought it would be fun to check out film on some of the past Heisman winners to see what they looked like coming out of high school.

Unfortunately, not all Heisman winners have video available from their prep years on the internet, so this is an incomplete list:

Marcus Mariota

Jameis Winston

Johnny Manziel

Robert Griffin III

Cameron Newton

Mark Ingram

Sam Bradford

Tim Tebow

Matt Leinart and Carson Palmer

Eric Crouch

Ricky Williams

Danny Wuerffel

Desmond Howard

Barry Sanders

Bo Jackson

Earl Campbell

Tony Dorsett

Mike Garrett

Roger Staubach