Power ranking all 16 SEC quarterbacks ahead of the 2025 season

The first time Lane Kiffin saw Austin Simmons throw on film, he immediately saw his loose lefty stroke and said: “He just has the Tua thing.”

“There’s no way you teach any of that,” Kiffin said of Simmons and Tua Tagovailoa. “They just have that.”

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Week one is here. This weekend, 16 SEC quarterbacks will hit the field.

2024 was a relatively down year for quarterback play in the SEC. There was plenty of talent, but it was inexperienced. Meanwhile, the veterans who had played before, like Texas’s Quinn Ewers and Georgia’s Carson Beck, regressed.

This year should be better. A handful of SEC teams are returning starters from 2024, including a couple that are in the Heisman trophy discussion. Many think Arch Manning will be an upgrade over Ewers at Texas. In Gainesville, five-star DJ Lagway is expected to have a big sophomore campaign.

In Baton Rouge, LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier hopes to follow in the footsteps of fifth-year quarterbacks who came before him. Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels both won the Heisman as fifth-year players at LSU.

Here are LSU Wire’s inaugural SEC quarterback power rankings for the 2025 season.

16. Zach Calzada, Kentucky

Earlier this week, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Kentucky named Zach Calzada the starter. Calzaa began his collegiate career at Texas A&M in 2019.

He took over as A&M’s starter in week three of 2021 and didn’t look all that bad for a first-year QB — Calzada posted an 80.8 PFF grade in 357 snaps in 2021. Calzada transferred to Auburn in 2022, but didn’t see the field.

Then, Calzada transferred to Incarnate Word and played well at the FCS level. Now a seventh-year quarterback in the SEC, Calzada is ready for another chance. Calzada’s years at Incarnate Word are some cause for optimism, but Calzada hasn’t played SEC…


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