r/CFB • u/Moose4KU Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks • 21d ago

Video [Highlight] Oklahoma @ Georgia: John Mateer does a Jameis Winston impression, fumbling the ball unforced into a 85 yard Georgia TD

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u/sonofacat Kansas State Wildcats • Hateful 8 21d ago

Wonder if this is a natural result of NIL/Transfer portal leading to weaker QB rooms. Seems crazy to have no other halfway decent option if QB1 goes down

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u/ICanOutP1zzaTheHut Texas Longhorns • North Texas Mean Green 21d ago

They went all in on Mateer and the room suffered. I don’t think most teams are as bad as them

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u/RipRaycom Clemson Tigers • ACC 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yeah it’s very difficult these days to have a good QB room when you also have an established starter. You can get a young guy from the portal who’s fine waiting a year to start but you’re probably gonna have to pay starter money to do it. If not that it’s either luck out on a guy out of HS or be lucky enough to find a decent veteran backup who doesn’t care about a starting job. Neither are easy to have.

It’s also much harder to be a freshman QB these days than it was even like 5 years ago since defenses have largely kept their safeties back and sacrificed some run defense for better coverages.

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u/RukiMotomiya 21d ago

In general talent is more spread out, at the least above noteworthy programs. Guys can go be starters elsewhere instead of being a 5 star backup at a major school and transfer later if they need to.