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The quarter of Arizona State Sun Devils Sam Leavitt has a list written on a whiteboard in his room.
It is a list of quarters, and no, they are not the ones he aspires to be. It is the quarter-tree he wants to overthrow in his 2025 season.
Leavitt would not disclose the exact names of the list, but it is a tactic that it has been used for some time now to give it this additional motivation push each time it needs it.
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The quarter of Arizona State Sun Devils Sam Leavitt passes the ball against the Texas Longhorns during the Peach Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz stadium. (Images Brett Davis-Imagn)
This is something Leavitt learned from his older brother, Dallin, who played six seasons in the NFL safe.
“I never had a list of growing up,” Leavitt told PK Press Club Digital. “There were always people classified higher than me that I looked at, but I guess my brother told me a little at some point:” You have to go hunt someone. “For him, it worked very well.
“I took a few years before I really cared about it because I was so under -recruited when I was growing that I was not even listed – I was not even in the Top 25 or in the Top 50. So, it’s a bit difficult to put the names.”
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The list, now, is justified for Leavitt, whose season of small groups in his first year with the Sun Devils showed someone worthy to be in the conversation of the best quarters of university football before the 2025 campaign.
Leavitt was a neglected perspective of Oregon Ducks before transferring Michigan in 2023. He only saw time in four games, and he made the jump, this time for the coach of the coach of the coach Rob Dillingham in Temple.
This decision turned out to be the best, because Leavitt helped Arizona State to the play football playoffs after winning the Big XII conference. Leavitt launched for 2,885 yards with 24 affected touches, while rushing for 443 yards and five scores.
“Now, I’m at this stage when I am in the best 10 guys, I put these names and it gives me just a little more,” he said. “When I need a little additional motivation to get up 30 minutes earlier, or go to bed earlier, make my last sections, or look at this little adhesive ribbon when it is like” UGH, I really don’t want. “This list gives you this last little kick.”
The quarter of Arizona State Sun Devils Sam Leavitt reacts after a game against the Texas Longhorns during the Peach Bowl. (Images Brett Davis-Imagn)
Although it can provide fuel if necessary, the reader of Leavitt does not need to turn around reading the names of other quarters every day.
In fact, despite all the good that came out of last year for Leavitt, it is not at all satisfied with the results.
“I did not play at the level where I wanted to play, and I left so much on the table that I had the impression,” he said when he asked how he reflected in the 2024 season. “It just gives me the journey during the off-season to go and do what I should do. And that’s how each player should feel-you should never feel satisfied with what you have done.
“I even think back to my last year when we won the state title, it was never sitting well with me. I don’t know, I did not play at the level where I wanted to play, and I guess that perfection is what motivates me and made me who I am.”
The Sun Devils now have a target on their backs as Big XII reign champions, then Leavitt and its Arizona State teammates are heading for the new year with high expectations.
The quarter-back of the state of Arizona Sam Leavitt during spring training in Kajikawa practiced land in Temple on March 25, 2025. (Imagn)
And it’s perfectly good for Leavitt, who has another word on his whiteboard next to the quarter list: Heisman.
“I would say a Heisman and a national championship, that’s the final goal,” he said. “But every day, that makes the team improves. You must have these big goals so that overall to pursue something. But it does not come without day -to -day work, so it improves and I manage from last year. Beginning of the team, exceeding myself, letting go, so just like that is the main objective from day to day.”
