Published Dec 12, 2019
Joe Burrow named AP Player of the Year
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Julie Boudwin  •  Death Valley Insider
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Have you lost count yet of the number of awards and accolades Joe Burrow has brought home thus far?

And he's not done yet.

Add The Associated Press college football player of the year in a landslide vote, the AP released on Thursday.

Burrow received 51 of 54 first-place votes from AP Top 25 poll voters and a total of 159 points.

Ohio State defensive end Chase Young was second with three first-place votes and 69 points while Buckeyes quarterback Justin Fields was third with 43 points. Burrow, Young, Fields and Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts, who finished fourth with 33 points, are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy to be handed out Saturday in New York.

The AP player of the year award began in 1998 and only five times has the winner not been the same as the Heisman winner; the last time that happened was in 2015, when Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey won the AP award and Alabama running back Derrick Henry was the Heisman winner.