Jon Wilner

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

ASU quarterback Jayden Daniels (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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Pac-12 Quarterback Comfort Quotient Rankings

Posted August 31, 2021 at 4:35 pm

By Jon Wilner At the dawn of the 2021 season, the state of quarterback play in the Pac-12 appears fragile. If a handful of veterans elevate their performance — USC’s…

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Wilner Hotline – 12 Impact Newcomers for the Pac-12 Football Season

Posted August 30, 2021 at 1:59 pm

In each of the past three seasons, the most impactful newcomer in the Pac-12 has been a quarterback. The streak began with the Mustache Man, Washington State’s Gardner Minshew, continued…

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Wilner Hotline – Saturday Night Five, Aftermath of Alliance, UCLA Rolls

Posted August 28, 2021 at 7:26 pm

By Jon Wilner Welcome to the umpteenth year of Saturday Night Five, which will publish weekly (typically in the midnight hour) through the 2021-22 college sports calendar … 1. Alliance…

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Wilner Hotline – Heisman Race 2021

Posted August 27, 2021 at 6:37 pm

There’s good news for the Pac-12 in the build-up to the 2021 Heisman Trophy race: Two key recruiting areas, Phoenix and Southern California, have produced five of the top six…