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Half of the teams in this year’s College Football Playoff are starting a transfer quarterback, including both teams in Friday night’s playoff opener between Indiana and Notre Dame.
The pervasiveness of the transfer portal and the team and individual success produced by these new quarterbacks has erased the stigma that was long attached to transfers across all positions. Last year’s transfer class included Indiana’s Kurtis Rourke, Notre Dame’s Riley Leonard, Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel, Ohio State’s Will Howard and Miami’s Cam Ward. Gabriel and Ward were Heisman Trophy finalists.
The crop of top passers in this year’s transfer cycle has much less star power but could carry a similar impact on the 2025 season.
Here’s the best of the best on the transfer market, including quarterbacks who have already signed with new schools:
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Mateer is the jewel of this transfer class and the one addition capable of matching Gabriel and Ward — himself a former WSU transfer — as a top-level Heisman contender on a playoff contender. Playing off the national map in Pullman, the rising junior threw for 3,139 yards, ran for 826 yards and had 44 total touchdowns. Mateer could be a transformative addition for a quarterback-starved program such as Oklahoma, which recently hired his former offensive coordinator, Ben Arbuckle.
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Darian Mensah, Duke (Tulane)
Mensah checks the boxes for Manny Diaz and the Blue Devils as a proven starter with multiple years of remaining eligibility. The rising sophomore led all eligible passers in the American Athletic in completing 65.9% of his throws on 9.5 yards per attempt and is only scratching the surface of his potential.
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Author : The Oklahoman
Publish date : 2024-12-18 02:22:00
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