Tuesdays with Gorney: Transfer QBs finding success at the highest levels

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If you’re a top quarterback and you want to win the Heisman Trophy, transfer.

If you’re a top quarterback and want to play for a national championship, transfer.

If you’re a top quarterback and you want to be taken high in the NFL Draft, transfer.

Of course, we’re being facetious, but the days of quarterbacks transferring being a black mark on their success are so far gone it’s hard to remember.

The success of transfer quarterbacks is striking, compelling and impossible to overlook.

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Notre Dame will face Ohio State for the national championship on Monday night and both teams have transfer quarterbacks as the Irish’s Riley Leonard came from Duke and the Buckeyes’ Will Howard used to play at Kansas State.

Three of the top four quarterbacks – Howard, Leonard and Texas’ Quinn Ewers – in the final four of the College Football Playoff were transfers as Penn State’s Drew Allar was the only one who signed with the same program out of high school.

From 2017 until this season, there have been six quarterbacks who have won the Heisman Trophy. Alabama’s Bryce Young was the only non-transfer as Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Joe Burrow, Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels started at other programs.

What’s also incredible about that list is that by transferring almost all of them except for Williams, who was awesome at Oklahoma before being awesome at USC after following coach Lincoln Riley, rejuvenated their careers at their second schools.

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Publish date : 2025-01-14 12:22:00

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