Transfer Portal Quarterback Rankings: 50 Best College Football QBs In New Places

02/05/2024

2024 College Football Transfer Quarterback Rankings

transfer portal quarterback rankings: 50 best college football qbs in new places

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard (13) who is hurt, dresses and throws some pre-game passes with fellow quarterbacks Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the annual Notre Dame Blue-Gold spring football game at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. © MANDATORY CREDIT GREG SWIERCZ / USA TODAY NETWORK

The transfer portal is ever-evolving, so some of the players on this list might be gone by the time you read this. But for now, who are the 35 best transfer portal QBs for 2024 – the ones who’ll likely start and make the biggest impact

Who are the 15 who might have even more talent and upside, but will almost certainly be backups as they push for the 2025 jobs? (Scroll down for that.)

The 50 top quarterbacks who went through the transfer portal are …

Transfer Portal QB Rankings: Likely Starters

These 35 quarterbacks will likely go into the 2024 college football season as the starters for their respective teams. How good a get were each one, and who’s about to have the biggest seasons? This is a bit more about predicting how big a deal each transfer portal starter will be.

Scroll down for the 15 who might be better, but will likely be backups this season.

1 Dillon Gabriel

New School: Oregon

Former School: Oklahoma

63%, 14,865 yards, 125 TD, 26 INT, 1,060 rush yds, 26 TD

2 Riley Leonard

New School: Notre Dame

Former School: Duke

62%, 4,450 yards, 24 TD, 10 INT, 1,224 rush yds, 19 TD

3 Cam Ward

New School: Miami

Former School: Washington State

66%, 6,968 yards, 48 TD, 16 INT, 202 rush yds, 13 TD (FBS)

4 Will Howard

New School: Ohio State

Former School: Kansas State

59%, 5,786 yards, 48 TD, 25 INT, 921 rush yds, 19 TD

5 DJ Uiagalelei

New School: Florida State

Former School: Oregon State

59%, 8,319 yards, 57 TD, 24 INT, 1,132 rush yds, 21 TD

6 Taylen Green

New School: Arkansas

Former School: Boise State

59%, 3,794 yards, 25 TD, 15 INT, 1,026 rush yds, 19 TD

7 KJ Jefferson

New School: UCF

Former School: Arkansas

65%, 7,911 yards, 67 TD, 18 INT, 1,876 rush yds, 21 TD

8 Aidan Chiles

New School: Michigan State

Former School: Oregon State

69%, 309 yards, 4 TD, 0 INT, 79 rush yds, 3 TD

9 Grayson McCall

New School: NC State

Former School: Coastal Carolina

70%, 10,005 yards, 88 TD, 14 INT, 1,113 rush yds,18 TD

10 Tyler Shough

New School: Louisville

Former School: Texas Tech

63%, 4,625 yards, 36 TD, 17 INT, 714 rush yds, 10 TD

11 Dequan Finn

New School: Baylor

Former School: Toledo

60%, 7,079 yards, 63 TD, 23 INT, 1,837 rush yds, 25 TD

12 Maalik Murphy

New School: Duke

Former School: Texas

56%, 477 yards, 3 TD, 3 INT, -18 rush yds, 0 TD

13 Max Johnson

New School: North Carolina

Former School: Texas A&M

61%, 5,853 yards, 47 TD, 12 INT, 166 rush yds, 5 TD

14 Malachi Nelson

New School: Boise State

Former School: USC

33%, 0 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT, 0 rush yds, 0 TD

15 Kurtis Rourke

New School: Indiana

Former School: Ohio

66%, 7,651 yards, 50 TD, 16 INT, 828 rush yds, 11 TD

16 Will Rogers

New School: Washington

Former School: Mississippi State

69%, 12,315 yards, 94 TD, 28 INT, -316 rush yds, 1 TD

17 Brock Vandagriff

New School: Kentucky

Former School: Georgia

57%, 165 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, 46 rush yds, 0 TD

18 Tyler Van Dyke

New School: Wisconsin

Former School: Miami

64%, 7,469 yards, 54 TD, 23 INT, 32 rush yds, 2 TD

19 Kyle McCord

New School: Syracuse

Former School: Ohio State

67%, 3,776 yards, 27 TD, 8 INT, -77 rush yds, 0 TD

20 Max Brosmer

New School: Minnesota

Former School: New Hampshire

62%, 8,713 yards, 70 TD, 25 INT, 263 rush yds, 10 TD (FCS)

21 TJ Finley

New School: WKU

Former School: Texas State

63%, 5,638 yards, 36 TD, 18 INT, 100 rush yds, 8 TD

22 Chandler Morris

New School: North Texas

Former School: TCU

66%, 2,433 yards, 16 TD, 5 INT, 400 rush yds, 6 TD

23 Ty Thompson

New School: Tulane

Former School: Oregon

64%, 456 yards, 6 TD, 4 INT, 56 rush yds, 0 TD

24 Sam Leavitt

New School: Arizona State

Former School: Michigan State

65%, 139 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT, 67 rush yds, 0 TD

25 Noah Kim

New School: Coastal Carolina

Former School: Michigan State

59%, 1,264 yards, 9 TD, 6 INT, 58 rush yds, 0 TD

26 Dylan Morris

New School: James Madison

Former School: Washington

61%, 3,721 yards, 20 TD, 17 INT, 56 rush yds, 5 TD

27 Diego Pavia

New School: Vanderbilt

Former School: New Mexico State

58%, 4,423 yards, 39 TD, 15 INT, 1,431 rush yds, 13 TD

28 Brendan Sorsby

New School: Cincinnati

Former School: Indiana

57%, 1,595 yards, 15 TD, 6 INT, 268 rush yds, 4 TD

29 Athan Kaliakmanis

New School: Rutgers

Former School: Minnesota

53%, 2,784 yards, 17 TD, 13 INT, 234 rush yds, 3 TD

30 Tate Rodemaker

New School: Southern Miss

Former School: Florida State

58%, 901 yards, 7 TD, 5 INT, -17 rush yds, 0 TD

31 Bryson Barnes

New School: Utah State

Former School: Utah

60.1%, 2,025 yards, 17 TD, 13 INT, 391 rush yds, 3 TD

32 AJ Duffy

New School: San Diego State

Former School: Florida State

29%, 26 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT, 10 rush yds, 0 TD

33 EJ Warner

New School: Rice

Former School: Temple

59%, 6,104 yards, 41 TD, 24 INT, -43 rush yds, 0 TD

34 Chubba Purdy

New School: Nevada

Former School: Nebraska

52%, 846 yards, 6 TD, 7 INT, 315 rush yds, 3 TD

35 Cam Fancher

New School: Florida Atlantic

Former School: Marshall

61%, 3,766 yards, 21 TD, 17 INT, 757 rush yds, 5 TD

Transfer Portal QB Rankings: Likely Backups or Possible 2025 Starters

These 15 quarterbacks have all the talent to start, but it’ll take something big or disastrous for any of them to start this season over the almost certain 1s on the depth charts.

That doesn’t mean a few of these players can’t win a job – or rock when stepping in for an injured teammate – but unlike the ranking of 35 best transfer quarterbacks, this is more on talent and projection for the future.

1 Julian Sayin

New School: Ohio State

Former School: Alabama

2 Dante Moore

New School: Oregon

Former School: UCLA

3 Austin Mack

New School: Alabama

Former School: Washington

4 Jayden Maiava

New School: USC

Former School: UNLV

5 Jaden Rashada

New School: Georgia

Former School: Arizona State

6 Demond Williams