2025 QB discussion

HUNT

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Let's hear your top 5 in cfb next year. Also give me a sleeper QB not many know about. I'll go first. Just my preference. Tend to like athletic QBs more. More potential than anything.

1. Archie Manning
2. DJ Lagway
3. Lanorris Sellers
4. John Mateer
5. Cade Klubnik

Sleeper: Luke Altmyer
 
Great list @HUNT

You know I'm a big Mateer guy and think that was one helluva pickup.

Yes, I'll be a closet OU fan this year other than week #2 with a spicy future ticket in hand.

Cade might fully blossom this year. He was really ascending late in the frosh year until that Orange Bowl. Despite solid numbers as a sophomore, I didn't feel like he made the jump that he should have...

Then last year came along. He was damn good the last few months and that ratio was outstanding.

I won't hide the fact that a senior QB doing their thing is much rarer nowadays, but this could be one to remember. Team accomplishments will write the story when all said and done.

Sellers and Lagway are simply fun to watch. No drive is ever over with these two at the helm.

Arch speaks for himself. He'll have an early showcase game as well.

Altmeyer can be considered a sleeper, but at the same time his team has been receiving a lot of hype to do damage and sneak into the playoffs! I did take that flyer on Illinois to win the BIG 18 conference.

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I will assume that Dampier will fit into the sleeper category for many. I'll let @Two Utes go into that more. I was blessed to watch a lot of his games late last year and find him to be one to watch, no doubt. We'll see with the step up in competition.

Avery Johnson, Diego, Leavitt and other holdovers will have their way.

CTG favorite, Haynes King figures into that sleeper category.

I purposely didn't mention Nuss -- rather grab @twinkie13 attention on that one.
 
I like Mateer too but I can't get the Wyoming game out of my head. He was terrible in that game. I think the step up in competition may expose him. I could be wrong and I expect him to put up some numbers but I still expect OU to be out of the top 1/4 of the conference.

As for Dampier. Utah's WR room has a lot of unknowns but he's going to have a good OL and RB's behind him. If Whittingham can keep his grubby hands away from Beck's offense I expect big things from Dampier. The negative Ute fans point to his 12 INTs last year but UNM was playing from behind on a regular basis. I'm very bullish on Utah this year but unfortunately I don't think their D will be a good as last year. With an even competent QB last year that team would have been in the mix for the Big12 title.
 
Dampier will probably have to learn to play real QB at least a little.
I don't disagree. He's more of a runner but if the passing improves from last year their offense should be significantly better than last year. I know he's been working on the passing game a lot since getting to SLC.
 
A little off topic, but I think the QB "uncertainty" for 7 of the top 10 favorites is fascinating. And I don't mean uncertain like they don't know who is going to be the starter, but more that we don't know how these guys are going to perform now that they are the guy at big time programs. I throw Arch in there, even though he's most likely going to be awesome, because we haven't seen him do it yet.

Speaking for Alabama, competent QB play alone likely means a playoff berth. Anything above average probably means one of the 3 or 4 best teams in the country. If Ty Simpson lives up to his 5 star pedigree and the DeBoer/Grubb duo does what they've done in the past, then I bet he ends up as a top 5 guy by the end of the season. But if it's Keelon Russell somehow, sky is the limit
 
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