The transfer portal is spinning, and the chessboard for college football in 2024 is being remade as we speak. Which team will get the hot transfer quarterback on the market? We’re all wondering if Lincoln Riley and USC will go to the portal for a quarterback, and if so, which target they will pick.
Meanwhile, we have to acknowledge something about the recent set of Heisman Trophy winners: Most of the last five were transfers. Yes, that’s correct.
Each of the last two Heisman winners — Caleb Williams of USC in 2022, and Jayden Daniels of LSU in 2023 — were transfers. Caleb Williams moved to USC from Oklahoma. Daniels moved to LSU from Arizona State. In 2019, Joe Burrow — a landslide Heisman winner for LSU — gave the famous trophy another transfer winner. He transferred to LSU from Ohio State.
Most college football experts would tell you that offensive lines mostly have to be built from within, through recruiting and player development. Quarterback is a completely different story. Picking off the top quarterback in the portal can give an otherwise-incomplete offense an instant makeover and the missing piece of the puzzle which can create a championship-level roster.
Don’t lose sight of this with another transfer winning the Heisman Trophy this year.
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