Too many quarterbacks is an enviable problem in football. In college football, with the transfer portal and NIL considerations, the old chestnut is even more true: it’s impossible to have too many quarterbacks.
That’s why schools like Oklahoma are constantly recruiting for the position. The Sooners have added four quarterbacks this offseason: John Mateer, Jett Niu, Whitt Newbauer, and Gavin Fraikes. In the 2027 recruiting class, the Sooners are chasing after one particular top-10 quarterback in the country: Shreveport, Louisiana’s Peyton Houston.
Houston, who plays his football at Evangel Christian, is ranked No. 53 overall in ESPN’s “Junior 300.” And on Tuesday, Craig Haubert and Tom Luginbill, a pair of ESPN writers, compared a few players from the 2027 recruiting class to current college football players. The idea is that the fans haven’t seen the high schoolers, and a comparison provides a better vision of what the recruit could do.
Houston was compared to current LSU quarterback and Heisman Trophy favorite Garrett Nussmeier.
“When it comes to pure passing acumen, Houston has everything evaluators look for,” Haubert and Luginbill wrote. “He has one of the smoothest, cleanest releases in recent classes with extremely consistent mechanics. Houston throws with power and velocity and the ball jumps off his hand.”
Nussmeier spent most of his first three years with the Tigers on the bench. At one point, his father, former NFL quarterback Doug Nussmeier – who also happens to be an NFL quarterbacks coach – intimated the younger Nussmeier may take his talents elsewhere if LSU didn’t play him. Instead, Garrett stuck around and threw for more than 4,000 yards and 29 touchdowns last season.
Oklahoma would almost certainly take those kinds of numbers from Houston in a few years.
The Sooners have impressed in their recruitment of…
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