Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham announced Friday morning on Arizona Sports 98.7’s Bickley and Marotta that sophomore quarterback Sam Leavitt will miss the remainder of the 2025 season to have season-ending surgery on a “lingering issue.”
CBS Sports’ national college football reporter Brandon Marcello confirmed that it is a foot injury that will require surgery for Leavitt.
Leavitt, who missed a game three weeks ago against Utah due to an injury, “retweaked” the same injury last Saturday against Houston and was set to be out again for ASU’s matchup against Iowa State this Saturday.
The news immediately shocked the college football world.
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What’s next?
Following a successful 2024 campaign, in which ASU won the Big 12 championship and made the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, few expected Friday’s news to be the reality for the Sun Devils this season.
Leavitt was widely considered a Heisman favorite entering the 2025 season by several media outlets. Now the Sun Devils will presumably ride with redshirt senior quarterback Jeff Sims for the rest of the season.
Sims, who is set to make his third start with ASU, is 0-2 as a starter at ASU, with every start he’s made coming on the road—last year at Cincinnati and this year at Utah.
Ralph Amsden joined Brad Denny on Speak of the Devils to talk about what Sam Leavitt’s injury means for the season, and what Jeff Sims brings to the table.
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