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Looking around the country, it looks like there are quite a few examples of the grass not being greener.

Alex Hornibrook, incumbent starter at Wisconsin, will start the season on the bench in favor of James Blackmon at Florida State.

Gage Gubrud, who would have battled Eric Barriere for the starting spot at Eastern Washington, has lost the battle for QB1 at Wazzu to Anthony Gordon.

Well publicized, Tate Martell was named 2nd string at Miami.

Jacob Eason did 'win' (or was given, depending on who you listen to) the QB1 job at uw.

At Nevada, Florida State/Last Chance U alum Malik Henry lost the quarterback battle to freshman Carson Strong.

Tommy Stevens won the starting job at Mississippi State after transferring from Penn State.

Devon Modster transferred from UCLA to Cal and will start the season behind incumbent Chase Garbers.

Josh Jackson, incumbent at VaTech, won the starting job at Maryland.

Already, Jake Haener (uw), Kasim Hill (Maryland), and Jack Sears have announced their plans to play elsewhere next season.

A couple other winners: Justin Fields (Georgia) named starter at Ohio State, and Brandon Wimbush (Penn State) named starter at UCF, albeit while McKenzie Milton continues to rehab.

USC had a guy announce he's leaving too though he was like 4th on the chart.

If I'm a smaller school, I'd be trying to angle a few high-medium QB prospects about being the BMOC and being able to grow/develop. I'm trying to think of QB's who went the route of perpetual transfer and maintained success in the NFL and it's coming up blank.

Duck07 wrote:USC had a guy announce he's leaving too though he was like 4th on the chart.

If I'm a smaller school, I'd be trying to angle a few high-medium QB prospects about being the BMOC and being able to grow/develop. I'm trying to think of QB's who went the route of perpetual transfer and maintained success in the NFL and it's coming up blank.

Russell Wilson transferred to Wisconsin for his final season from NC State, Baker Mayfield transferred from Texas Tech to Oklahoma, and Kyler Murray transferred from Texas A&M to Oklahoma.

But isn't that sort of expected, that NFL-quality QBs wouldn't transfer at any point in college because they're so good they don't need to? Guys transfer either because they're riding the pine, or because they are good but not good enough to drum up NFL interest at their smaller school so they seek a bigger spotlight.

StevensTechU wrote:A couple other winners: Justin Fields (Georgia) named starter at Ohio State, and Brandon Wimbush (Penn State) named starter at UCF, albeit while McKenzie Milton continues to rehab.

Didn't Brandon Wimbush transfer from Notre Dame?

SuperDuck wrote:

StevensTechU wrote:A couple other winners: Justin Fields (Georgia) named starter at Ohio State, and Brandon Wimbush (Penn State) named starter at UCF, albeit while McKenzie Milton continues to rehab.

Didn't Brandon Wimbush transfer from Notre Dame?

He did. I misspoke/mistyped. He was a Penn State commit, once upon a time.