College football Twitter wants Florida TE Kyle Pitts in the early Heisman debate

Florida’s Kyle Trask-to-Kyle Pitts connection is going strong.

Last week when we broke down the top 2020 Heisman Trophy favorites, Florida quarterback Kyle Trask was among the top-10 candidates. But that was prior to the Gators’ season-opener.

Now that Florida is 2-0 with wins over Ole Miss and then South Carolina, 38-24, on Saturday, college football fans are pushing for a another Gator to be in the Heisman conversation: tight end Kyle Pitts.

Only two tight ends have ever won the Heisman: Larry Kelley for Yale in 1936 and Leon Hart for Notre Dame in 1949. So it’s been a while, but the Kyle-to-Kyle connection has been practically unstoppable so far this season, and if it continues, perhaps both players will be serious Heisman contenders by the end of the season.

Against the Gamecocks, Pitts, a junior, had a particularly strong first half and finished with four catches for 57 yards and two touchdowns. In Florida’s 51-35 win over Ole Miss last week, he had eight catches for 170 yards and four touchdowns.

So to recap, Pitts had six touchdowns through the first eight quarters of 2020, which is the same number South Carolina as a whole has this season. That ties him for second-most among SEC players in two-game period in the last 25 seasons, per ESPN Stats & Info.

Though it’s difficult to argue when some conferences haven’t played their first games yet, but Pitts might be the best tight end in the country. He’s stunningly faster than you might expect for a 6-foot-6, 240-pound player, he can make some incredibly unlikely catches and, so far, defenders are struggling to stop him.

It’s obviously still very early in this nontraditional college football season, so it’s possible Pitts could drop out of the Heisman conversation as quickly as he entered it, especially once the Big Ten and Pac-12 start playing. But if he continues at this pace — which is 30 touchdowns for the regular season after Saturday’s game — he would almost certainly deserve to be a contender.

And after two games, Florida fans and college football Twitter love that idea.

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