Where does Jackson Arnold rank in early 2024 Heisman odds according to Fan Duel?

Jackson Arnold is already getting some preseason Heisman buzz before his first year as a starter.

If you think [autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag] is going to win the [autotag]Heisman[/autotag] in 2024, now is the time to bet on it. You probably won’t see the odds this low again if he has the season you think he’s going to have.

Arnold is heading into his first year as the starting quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners. The sophomore quarterback showed flashes in games last year. Even though his bowl game was soured with all of the turnovers, he showed in that game why people are so high on him and his ability.

He’s definitely got all of the makings to be Oklahoma’s next great quarterback and Heisman contender. Arnold’s going to have plenty of opportunities to show out against several high-quality opponents.

So where does Arnold land in 2024 Heisman odds according to Fan Duel Sportsbook? Let’s take a look at the early contenders.

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2024 NFL Draft: Top QB Performances from week 6

Week six had some excellent performances from quarterback prospects

Week six of college football was another insane week of football that was chock full of impressive performances from 2024 quarterback prospects.

There were some confirmations of some players, but there was also a few players that shined and earned themselves a spot on this list. Including a couple of names that have not been on this list before.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the top performers from week six of the college football season.

DJ Uiagalelei opens up about Oregon State transfer decision

“I wanted to go somewhere where they’re going to let me be who I am as a player”

When Trevor Lawrence suffered an injury during the 2020 season, we saw another five-star quarterback step up to lead the Clemson Tigers in his absence.

Against the Boston College Eagles and Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Uiagalelei looked the part of the next top signal-caller to suit up for head coach Dabo Swinney. He completed 69 of 85 passes (81.2%) for 781 yards and 4 touchdowns. Uiagalelei added two more rushing touchdowns in that span.

However, in 2021 we saw the growing pains of a young quarterback, who finished with less than 60% of his passes being completed and he threw more interceptions than touchdowns. The following season was much better from a production standpoint but his struggles opened the door for five-star freshman Cade Klubnik to take over.

When the transfer portal’s first window opened on Dec. 5, Uiagalelei entered his name and committed to the [autotag]Oregon State Beavers[/autotag] by mid December. The former five-star signee from the 2020 class recently opened up about his decision to leave Clemson for the West Coast.

“I wanted to go somewhere where the scheme is going to fit me,” Uiagalelei said. “I wanted to go somewhere where they’re going to let me be who I am as a player, let me play free, and let me go out there and just cut it loose. Just somewhere where I can do what I wanted to do.”

The Beavers started Ben Gulbranson at quarterback last season but the numbers were pretty pedestrian. Still they were able to win 10 games, including a bowl victory over the Florida Gators. Most projections have Gulbranson backing up Uiagalelei this coming season.

It will be worth watching Oregon State this coming season to see if the change of scenery helped out Uiagalelei.

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15 reasons why Eagles GM will look to trade a 2023 first-round pick for more draft assets in 2024

Philadelphia is always looking to acquire impact players and we’re looking at fifteen 2024 NFL Draft prospects that could entice Eagles GM Howie Roseman to trade a 2023 first-round pick

During the 2021 NFL offseason, Howie Roseman was able to trade Carson Wentz and land a pre-draft deal with the Dolphins, resulting in three first-round picks in the 2022 NFL Draft.

That helped spawn a potential Super Bowl run this season.

The Eagles are technically still in the midst of a rebuild and although they made the postseason two years in a row, roster uncertainty thanks to 2023 free agency could allow pushing the retool into 2024 as well.

Even with the postseason in full swing, it is never too early for a look ahead to the 2023 and 2024 NFL Drafts scenarios.

Thanks to some draft night wizardry from Howie Roseman, the Eagles traded the No. 16 overall pick, No. 19 overall pick, and a 2022 sixth-round pick to the New Orleans Saints for the No. 18 overall pick, a 2022 third-round pick, a 2022 seventh-round pick, a 2023 first-round pick, and a 2024 second-round pick.

Philadelphia has their franchise quarterback, but if Roseman still has dreams of redoing the Justin Jefferson fiasco the 2024 draft could offer several big named quarterbacks, an All-American pass catcher and several defenders to help offset potential losses.

If Philadelphia dreams of an all-world pass-rusher or stud wide receiver, an extra first-round pick would be gold a year from now when the team will have multiple second-round picks as well.

Here are some of the top 2024 signal-callers, a star running back, and one all-world wide receiver that could have Roseman waiting patiently for that greener pasture.

REPORT: Quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei expected to transfer to Oregon State

Previous rumors had D.J. Uiagalelei going to UCLA. Fresh reports on Friday evening have him going to Oregon State. Can Jonathan Smith make this work? #Beavers

Big news in the transfer portal on a Friday night before Christmas: D.J. Uiagalelei, the talented but struggling Clemson quarterback who transferred out of Dabo Swinney’s program in search of a new home, is reportedly going to transfer to Oregon State. The move isn’t final, but it is supposed to be announced soon.

This is a fascinating development in addition to being a very important one. It is well known that Oregon State was hurt in 2022 by its limitations at quarterback. If the Beavers had a high-level passer, they might have been able to beat USC and make the Pac-12 Championship Game. They lost to eventual Pac-12 champion Utah, 10-win Washington, and USC, the Pac-12 runner-up. If head coach Jonathan Smith can get an elite quarterback, the Beavers could take off, because they have the other pieces they need, especially in the trenches.

Now comes the news that Uiagalelei could be their guy under center in 2023. It’s quite fascinating.

Uiagalelei transferred because Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik played brilliantly in relief of Uiagalelei in the ACC Championship Game. Klubnik, a freshman, wasn’t ready to displace Uiagalelei at the start of the season, but he looked like a high-level quarterback in December against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Uiagalelei could see that Klubnik had taken over the job.

Uiagalelei had his moments with Clemson, both this season (against Wake Forest in an overtime victory) and in the 2020 season when he briefly relieved Trevor Lawrence. He struggled profoundly in 2021 and had some rocky moments in 2022. Clemson didn’t make the College Football Playoff in two years with him as the starting quarterback for most of the season.

Jonathan Smith is making the bet that he can fix Uiagalelei’s mechanics, restore his confidence, and make him into a fully-realized quarterback. The outcome of the bet will have a significant role in shaping the outcome of the 2023 Pac-12 football season.

We’ll definitely have more on this story over the weekend at Trojans Wire.

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Five-star quarterback Dante Moore flips commitment from Oregon to UCLA

.@Ducks_Wire has more on one of the big stories in #Pac12 football this week. Does this mean D.J. Uiagalelei will not go to UCLA? Stay tuned.

Highly-touted quarterback Dante Moore officially flipped his commitment from Oregon to UCLA, just days before the early signing period begins on Wednesday.

The five-star prospect from the state of Michigan appeared to be a solid commit for the Ducks until he took an official visit to UCLA on Dec. 9.

Ducks Wire has more on this developing story.

Moore originally committed to Oregon back on July 8, choosing the Ducks from over 40 other offers. However, after Oregon offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham — Moore’s main recruiter — left the program the head coaching job at Arizona State, rumors began swirling that Moore was going to look elsewhere.

Moore carries a five-star rating in the 247Sports Composite and is ranked as the No. 5 quarterback in one of the best QB classes in recent memory.

In his time at King (Detroit), Moore finished runner-up for the Michigan Gatorade Football Player of the Year award in both 2021 and 2022.

The 2023 class is getting juicy folks, especially out West. Stay tuned for more.

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Tracking the Oregon QB dominoes with Dante Moore, Bo Nix, DJ Uiagalelei and more

At this point, there are a million different ways that Oregon’s QB situation could play out. Let’s try to keep them straight.

When it comes to the quarterback position for the Oregon Ducks, there are about a million different ways we could answer the question “who starts at QB in 2023?”

Will it be Bo Nix? That’s my odds-on favorite at the moment, but the Ducks’ 2022 starter had an opportunity to announce to the world that he’s coming back for another year with Oregon on Friday afternoon, and he instead kicked the can down the road.

Will it be five-star recruit Dante Moore? If you asked me a week ago, I would have said that he is a likely option, but the way the recruiting world has unfolded over the past few days makes that seem rather unlikely at this point.

What about a transfer who isn’t on the roster? That’s a reasonable path, and there are a number of viable available options who would likely love to play in Eugene.

While there can’t be multiple answers to this question, it’s easy to see how all of these options are connected in some way or another. Over the past few days, it’s become incredibly confusing to keep track of who is going where, and what school is looking at what player — so much so that you might be better off with a ball of string, some push pins and a cork-board as we get down to the end of the recruiting cycle.

Let’s dive into what we know and see what it tells us about where the Ducks go from here.

Who’s next at QB for Florida? Here are some transfer portal options

Here are some of the top names to keep an eye on in the transfer portal as the Gators look for their next signal-caller.

Florida football faces some serious attrition at the quarterback position after the departure of starter [autotag]Anthony Richardson[/autotag] to the NFL draft and the dismissal of [autotag]Jalen Kitna[/autotag] from the program due to criminal charges. Add the revocation of 2023 recruit [autotag]Marcus Stokes[/autotag]’ scholarship due to unacceptable behavior, and [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag] has quite a pickle to deal with this offseason.

The good news is the program has done very well bolstering its depth under center for the long term, earning commitments from 2023 five-star signal-caller [autotag]Jaden Rashada[/autotag] as well as 2024’s [autotag]DJ Lagway[/autotag].

Unfortunately, there is only [autotag]Jack Miller III[/autotag] and a few other untested young gunslingers to help bridge the quarterback room in the interim, which means the Gators will need to dip into the NCAA transfer portal for at least one potential starter in 2023.

Take a look below at the list of potential transfer portal targets Gators Online’s Nick de la Torre put together in the second edition of his hot board, along with some relevant rankings and stats to go along with them.

5-star DE Matayo Uiagalelei narrows recruitment down to final 3

5-star EDGE Matayo Uiagalelei is down to three schools in his recruitment, with the Ducks among the finalists.

The Oregon Ducks are still in the mix for one of the highest-profile recruits in the 2023 class, with 5-star DE Matayo Uiagalelei announcing the final three schools in his recruitment.

It is down to Oregon, the Ohio State Buckeyes, and USC Trojans. All three schools have been aggressive in the recruitment of Uiagalelei, who is rated by 247Sports as the No. 2 EDGE in the 2023 class, and No. 10 overall player in the nation.

It will be interesting to see where Uiagalelei chooses to go, as NIL is expected to be a major factor in his recruitment. There is also the other brother to look at, as QB D.J. Uiagalelei recently entered the transfer portal and is looking to leave the Clemson Tigers.

A date has not yet been set for Matayo to make his official commitment.

Matayo Uiagalelei’s Recruiting Profile

A quarterback away?

Back in September, when Dabo Swinney held out hope that his passing game could be more dynamic, Clemson’s coach made a declaration that seems relevant given where things stand now that the regular season is over. “You can’t win at the highest level …

Back in September, when Dabo Swinney held out hope that his passing game could be more dynamic, Clemson’s coach made a declaration that seems relevant given where things stand now that the regular season is over.

“You can’t win at the highest level if you can’t throw the ball. You just can’t,” Swinney said following the Tigers’ first two games. “You’ve got to have a great passing game.”

Ten games and a couple of losses later, Clemson is in jeopardy of missing out on an ACC championship for the second straight season, though that will be decided when the Tigers duke it out with North Carolina next weekend in Charlotte. Sure, Clemson’s defense has taken a step back under first-year coordinator Wesley Goodwin, particularly in the secondary. And D.J. Uiagalelei hasn’t gotten much help from a receiving corps that’s sorely lacking the impact players it’s had in the not-too-distant past.

But one would be hard-pressed to make a case for anything other than insufficient quarterback play when it comes to the primary reason why Clemson has already assured itself of missing out on another College Football Playoff appearance.

It was always going to be a tall if not impossible task to try to meet the unenviable bar of expectation that Trevor Lawrence (and Deshaun Watson before him) set during his time at Clemson before the Jacksonville Jaguars made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. But for most of the last two seasons, the Tigers have struggled to be average at the most important position on the field.

Uiagalelei dazzled in those two spot starts for Lawrence against Boston College and Notre Dame as a true freshman in 2020, but that seems like a lifetime ago. In his two seasons as Lawrence’s successor, Uiagalelei, a former five-star signee himself, has completed 58% of his passes with 31 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions. He threw more picks (10) than touchdowns (9) a season ago.

After an offseason of physical and mechanical tweaks, there was confidence from Uiagalelei and a public backing from Swinney in his belief that his strong-armed signal caller would show significant improvement this season. Early on, it looked like that assessment might be spot on.

Uiagalelei averaged 243 yards passing with 14 touchdowns and just two interceptions through the first half of the regular season. There was that 371-yard, five-touchdown performance in a double-overtime win at Wake Forest in late September that looked like a legitimate breakthrough moment.

But things started trending in the opposite direction a couple of weeks later against Syracuse. Uiagalelei threw two picks and lost a scoop-and-score fumble in a comeback victory he watched from the Tigers’ sideline after being benched in the second half. He’s committed at least one turnover in six of the last seven games, including a pick-six against Notre Dame that contributed to him being pulled again.

And despite the assistance of a running game that’s averaged nearly 214 yards over the last five games, Uiagalelei has surpassed the 200-yard passing mark just once in those games. A completion rate that sat right at 65% through the first seven games has dropped to 62.2% since.

Things bottomed out against South Carolina on Saturday. Uiagalelei set career-lows in completions (8) and completion rate (27.5%). He also threw his seventh interception of the season in a one-possession game midway through the fourth quarter, one that was sailed well beyond tight end Davis Allen’s reach and was easily picked by Carolina’s Marcellas Dial in the Gamecocks’ 31-30 win.

It was Clemson’s fifth loss in the last two seasons, the same amount the Tigers had in the previous four seasons combined amid their six-year CFP run. In those losses, Uiagalelei has completed exactly 50% of his passes for 707 yards with two more interceptions (6) than touchdown passes (4).

But Uiagalelei was never benched Saturday. In fact, Cade Klubnik, another blue-chip signee at the position, hasn’t gotten much opportunity this season outside of those limited reps against Syracuse and Notre Dame when Swinney said he thought the offense needed a spark.

Yet despite Uiagalelei struggling more than at any point this season against the Gamecocks, Swinney didn’t turn to the freshman. Klubnik wasn’t asked to do much through the air against Syracuse (Clemson ran for a season-high 293 yards that day) and threw an ill-advised interception of his own against Notre Dame deep in his own territory, but that was one of just two snaps Klubnik played in the Tigers’ first loss.

Klubnik has attempted just 22 passes in eight games to this point. He’s been Uiagalelei’s backup all season, but his lack of opportunity indicates Swinney and offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter aren’t yet at a place where they fully trust the youngster to log meaningful game reps.

So Klubnik’s potential remains unknown while Uiagalelei, a two-year starter who’s played in 35 games over the last three seasons, is at a point in his career where the sample size suggests he is what he is. Swinney said Sunday that Uiagalelei is still the Tigers’ starter. But when was asked after Saturday’s game about the possibility of the two splitting reps during practice this week, Swinney was short with his answers yet not exactly dismissive of the idea.

“We’ll see,” he said.

Clemson has another blue-chipper in line to join the quarterback room next season in Briarwood Christian (Alabama) School standout Christopher Vizzina, who’s expected to make his commitment official next month during the early signing period. For now, though, the focus is on how Swinney is going to handle the quarterbacks he’s already got from here on out.

It’s a situation the Tigers have to get figured out sooner rather than later. Their hopes of getting back to being one of college football’s elite depends on it.

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