Bleacher Report projects Texas QB Hudson Card to lose job and transfer

This may be writing on the wall, or it very well could be too premature to even know what decision Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian will make at the quarterback position.

Regardless of what we think about Texas’ quarterback decision, the only person whose opinion matters is the head coach. However, due to the addition of Ohio State transfer Quinn Ewers, there is an assumption around the country that he will snatch the job from Hudson Card.

Ewers, who decided to forgo his senior season of high school and enroll at Ohio State to chase a bag or two, is now back in his home state and there is an expectation that the former No. 1 overall recruit with a perfect rating will not be sitting for long. This means that Card, who initially won the starting job in 2021 but was quickly pulled after struggling in the Week 2 loss to Arkansas, would be the second fiddle again.

It is hard to imagine he would want to wait to battle Ewers and the future of the quarterback room again after the season, so outlets like Bleacher Report have already picked out he and other quarterbacks who might lose the job and where they could transfer to.

Bleacher Report predicted for Card to end up in the Big 12 again, but this time he would be suiting up for Matt Campbell and Iowa State.

There’s almost too much hype surrounding Ewers for there to be any end game besides him trotting out with the 1s in Texas’ season opener on September 3 against Louisiana-Monroe.

If that’s the case, will it be enough to push Austin native Hudson Card elsewhere? With the uncertainty surrounding Ewers and incoming freshman Maalik Murphy, it would be wise of the Longhorns lifer to stay, but he may not.

If he left, the Iowa State Cyclones would make a ton of sense. Attending a fellow Big 12 school, Card has a bunch of familiarity with the program. He also had to see Brock Purdy’s success the past few seasons and believe he could thrive under head coach Matt Campbell.

With Hunter Dekkers virtually unproven and competing with incoming freshman Rocco Becht, Card could head to Ames and win that job. Campbell has built a quality program at a school not known for its football, and despite a disappointing season in 2021, strong pieces remain.

Card won Texas’ starting job last year as a redshirt freshman before being replaced by Casey Thompson and has a lot of upside, especially considering how much eligibility he has left. He could be a coup for Campbell.

It does seem that it is only a matter of when Ewers will take over as the starter, but to give Card credit, even after he struggled at the beginning of the season in 2021, he showed flashes of potential in the last few games when he came in for Casey Thompson.

This quarterback battle has a chance to be career altering in so many ways, and as of right now Card is the favorite to end up at a different school.