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ESPN.com
Mar 1, 2024, 07:00 AM ET
With spring practices ready to start, we’re analyzing college football’s leading returning gamers at a number of positions. Off is the most essential position on the field: quarterback.
We surveyed our college football press reporters, inquiring to rank their leading 10 QBs getting in the 2024 season. Points were appointed based upon their votes: 10 points for top place, 9 for 2nd location, down to 1 for 10th location.
Our choices consist of 4 quarterbacks from the SEC and 2 who are returning from injury after missing out on most or all of the 2023 season. And while QBs have actually been regular visitors to the transfer website in the last few years, just 2 transfers from this offseason made our list. Possibly there’s something to be stated for connection behind.
Here are our choices for the leading 10 quarterbacks in college football.
1. Carson Beck, Georgia
2023 statistics: 3,941 lawns passing, 24 TD passes, 6 INTs, 117 backyards hurrying, 4 TD hurries, 85.2 QBR
Points: 89 (5 first-place votes)
After waiting patiently for 3 seasons, Beck lastly took control of Georgia’s offense in 2023. He led the Bulldogs to an unbeaten routine season and almost took them back to the College Football Playoff. In his very first season as a starter, he finished a tremendous 72.4% of his pass efforts for 3,941 lawns with 24 goals and 6 interceptions. The issues about Georgia having a brand-new quarterback and offending planner (Mike Bobo), it ranked 5th in the FBS in scoring (40.1 points per video game) and 11th in passing (305.3 lawns).
This season, Beck will not have All-America tight end Brock Bowers or receiver Ladd McConkey. Once again, he didn’t have them at his disposal for prolonged stretches last season, either. Georgia is still equipped with pass-catchers; it included tight end Benjamin Yurosek (Stanford) and receivers Colbie Young (Miami), Michael Jackson III (USC) and London Humphreys (Vanderbilt) through the transfer website. Beck needs to be much more comfy with 14 starts under his belt.– Mark Schlabach
2. Dillon Gabriel, Oregon
2023 statistics: 3,660 backyards passing, 30 TD passes, 6 INTs, 373 backyards hurrying, 12 TD hurries, 87.3 QBR
Points: 85 points (3 first-place votes)
Gabriel’s transfer from Oklahoma to Oregon was among the more unexpected offseason relocations, considering he led the Sooners to a 10-2 mark and tossed for 3,660 backyards with 30 goals in 2015. Gabriel, who invested his very first 3 college seasons at UCF, discovered a brand-new home simply days after going into the website, landing at Oregon, where he will change Bo Nix. Nix’s success story in Eugene is a plan Gabriel would like to follow, as Nix raised his video game substantially after heading west from Auburn. The Ducks didn’t simply generate Gabriel through the website,
