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With how things are currently shaping up, the Pac-12 may have it's deepest, most exciting lineup of starting QBs ever. It should be one heckuva final year for the Pac-12 in its final season with the LA schools.

UW: Michael Penix
WSU: Cam Ward
OSU: DJU
Oregon: Bo Nix
Cal: ?
Stanford: ?
UCLA: Collin Schlee/Dante Moore (if he wins the starting job)
USC: Caleb Williams
Arizona: Jayden de Laura
ASU: Drew Pyne
Utah: Cam Rising (if he returns)
Colorado: Shedeur Sanders

I’d say no, not really close either.

3 nfl QBs in CW, Penix and Nix. But only CW is drafted before round 3.

Ward , DeLaura, DJU have all be average to below average

The rest are meh.

But it’s a solid enough group. But not deepest all time, not even close. It’s what the pac 12 used to be every year.

Just in 2000 we had Harrington, Feeley on the same team, Palmer, Kyle Boller, Tui, Gesser, and Smith. You can go through most years of 200-2010 and find better QBs then this next year.

The history of quarterbacks in this league is insane. "Best ever" would take some research but highly, highly doubtful.

But in the Pac-12 era, this is probably the best top to bottom lineup of QBs the conference has had in a single-seaon. Usually the conference struggles to have 3-4 decent and/or exciting QBs at the same time.

greenyellow wrote:But in the Pac-12 era, this is probably the best top to bottom lineup of QBs the conference has had in a single-seaon. Usually the conference struggles to have 3-4 decent and/or exciting QBs at the same time.

Picking a year out of a hat, here were the 2015 QBs:

-Jared Goff, Cal (1st overall draft pick)
-Josh Rosen, UCLA (1st round pick)
-Luke Falk, WSU (1st team Pac-12 in this season, played for Titans, Dolphins and Jets)
-Kevin Hogan, Stanford (2nd team Pac-12 in this season; played for 7 NFL teams including 2022 with Titans)
-"Big Play VA" Vernon Adams, Ducks
-Jake Browning (still somehow on an NFL roster), p-u-dub
-Cody Kessler, USC (3rd round draft pick)
-Travis Wilson, Utah (winningest QB in Utah history)
-Mike Bercovici, ASU (had a cup of coffee with the Chargers and Sun Devils in the NFL)

StevensTechU wrote:The history of quarterbacks in this league is insane. "Best ever" would take some research but highly, highly doubtful.

Agree...good class, but no where near the best ever. For sure not as good as 2015 as you pointed out. 1998 comes to mind because Oregon had three QBs that made NFL rosters on the same team: Feeley, Harrington, and Smith. In addition, these other Pac-10 QBs made NFL rosters: Fusani, Husak, Bennett, McNown, Palmer, Huard, and Tuiasosopo.

And Jonathan Smith wasn't too bad at OSU either

I think the 1997 roster had all 4 QBs make NFL rosters. I thinks Maas is now a coach in the CFL. Now in the NIL era, 2-3 would have left.