As the sun sets on the 2021 college football season, the transfer portal is full of players looking for opportunities to make an impact with a new school. The Oklahoma Sooners have seen several players find new homes through the transfer portal.
Over at Pro Football Focus, the site took a look at the new landing spots for each quarterback who has transferred and graded each move. To the surprise of no one, Spencer Rattler was ranked as the best quarterback transfer in the country in this transfer cycle. Anthony Treash of Pro Football Focus said of Rattler’s move to South Carolina: It was “the best upgrade in the country by a mile.”
Rattler isn’t perfect, but his ceiling is higher than any other quarterback in the country, which is why he received so much preseason hype this year. He produced the highest passing grade PFF has ever seen by a non-draft-eligible quarterback in 2020, though that mark is about to be broken by Bryce Young. Rattler still can be a star next season at South Carolina. He has some recruiting to do on his end with some players still hanging out in the transfer portal to help the current pass-catching and pass-protecting situation at South Carolina, but either way the Gamecocks will have one of the most improved passing attacks in 2022. – Treash, Pro Football Focus
Rattler’s career at Oklahoma didn’t go as planned, but that shouldn’t diminish the type of quarterback he is and the upside he has. Rattler won a lot of games for the Oklahoma Sooners in his season and a half as the starter, and the Sooners only lost two starts with him under center.
Though it was the right move for the Oklahoma Sooners to turn to Caleb Williams as Rattler struggled against Texas for the second season in a row, Rattler takes a ton of talent to South Carolina to join Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks.
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