These five under-the-radar college football transfer QBs could be poised for instant impact in 2025 season

Every college football team in the transfer quarterback market is looking for their version of an automatic fit. Joe Burrow’s second year at LSU, Baker Mayfield at Oklahoma or even Cam Ward at Miami last season show the ceiling of what a signal caller from another program can bring when dropped into surroundings that are poised for success. 

It’s hard to see anyone in this transfer portal class having that impact right now, but portal production can come from unlikely places. Projecting Ward’s success was easy last year; he was dropped into an offense with a solid offensive line and great skill players around him (Damien Martinez, Jacolby George, and Xavier Restrepo), but who would have thought last February that former Ohio State backup Kyle McCord would lead the nation’s most prolific passing attack at Syracuse under a first year head coach? 

Maybe you can’t always see the forest through the trees, but here are five under-the-radar transfer QBs to watch in the 2025 college football season.

Mendoza threw for 3,000 yards in just 11 games at Cal and joins an Indiana team coming off its best season in school history piloted by Kurtis Rourke (who transferred in from Ohio). Former Notre Dame center Pat Coogan is set to be the captain of the offensive line, which is a positive, and Mendoza gets exceptional wide receiver Elijah Sarratt back from last year’s team. Don’t regard the Hoosiers as simply a flash in the pan.

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Author : Richard Johnson

Publish date : 2025-02-27 16:39:00

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