{"id":10775,"date":"2025-04-29T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/10775\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:46:09","slug":"some-big-ten-teams-carry-quarterback-competitions-into-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/10775\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Big Ten teams carry quarterback competitions into fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven Big Ten teams have settled on their starting quarterbacks. The other seven, including\u00a0defending national champion<\/a>\u00a0Ohio State, will carry competitions into preseason practice.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

OSU and six other teams in the Big Ten will be taking their QB competitions into preseason practice
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Eleven other teams have already settled their starting quarterbacks
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Illinois’ Luke Altmyer, Michigan State’s Aidan Chiles, Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola, Penn State’s Drew Allar, Rutgers’ Athan Kaliakmanis, Southern California’s Jayden Maiava and Washington’s Demond Williams Jr. come back as returning starters<\/p>\n

Illinois’ Luke Altmyer, Michigan State’s Aidan Chiles, Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola, Penn State’s Drew Allar, Rutgers’ Athan Kaliakmanis, Southern California’s Jayden Maiava and Washington’s Demond Williams Jr. are returning starters.<\/p>\n

Indiana, Iowa, UCLA and Wisconsin brought in transfers who will go into the fall as No. 1s \u2014 the Hoosiers’ Fernando Mendoza (California), the\u00a0Hawkeyes’ Mark Gronowski<\/a>\u00a0(South Dakota State), the\u00a0Bruins’ Nico Iamaleava<\/a>\u00a0(Tennessee) and the\u00a0Badgers’ Billy Edwards Jr.<\/a>\u00a0(Maryland).<\/p>\n

Julian Sayin appears to have an edge over Lincoln Kienholz at Ohio State, where coach Ryan Day is waiting until August to name his starter. Sayin, a dual-threat rated as a five-star prospect out of high school, has been the presumed 2025 starter since he left Alabama when Nick Saban announced his retirement in January 2024.<\/p>\n

Dante Moore is favored to beat out Austin Novosad for the Oregon job. Moore was a five-star who transferred from UCLA after the 2023 season and played 29 snaps over five games last year. Novosad played a total of 16 snaps over three games.<\/p>\n

Heralded freshman Bryce Underwood<\/a>\u00a0has the inside track at Michigan against Mikey Keene and Jadyn Davis. Keene, who started 23 games at Fresno State the past two years, missed the spring game because of injury. The Wolverines hope to have more of a vertical passing game with new offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey.<\/p>\n

No starter has been named at Minnesota, but it would be a surprise if it weren’t Drake Lindsey following the transfer of Zach Pyron two weeks ago. Max Shikenjanski and Dylan Wittke also are in the mix.<\/p>\n

Northwestern has a three-man race between SMU transfer Preston Stone and holdovers Jack Lausch and Ryan Boe.<\/p>\n

Malachi Singleton looked like the guy at Purdue until Ryan Browne, who started two games last season, transferred back after going through spring practice at North Carolina. Singleton, Browne and Washington State transfer Evans Chuba will compete for the job.<\/p>\n

Freshman Malik Washington appears to be the front-runner at Maryland, where UCLA transfer Justyn Martin also is competing.<\/p>\n

Odom’s odyssey<\/p>\n

Barry Odom takes the momentum of leading UNLV to its best back-to-back seasons in its Division I history into\u00a0his new job at Purdue<\/a>, which was 5-19 overall and 3-15 in Big Ten play in two years under Ryan Walters.<\/p>\n

Odom has signed 44 players out of the transfer portal to help replace the 56 who left. Leading rusher Devin Mockobee and defensive lineman Jamarius Dinkins are the only returning starters.<\/p>\n

Walters, fired on Dec. 1, is now\u00a0defensive coordinator at Washington.<\/a>\u00a0Purdue visits the Huskies on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

Portal prizes<\/p>\n

Oregon brought in the top-ranked group of transfers in the Big Ten, according to\u00a0247Sports.<\/a>\u00a0Among the incoming players were OL Isaiah World (Nevada), S Dillon Thieneman (Purdue) and OL Emmanuel Pregnon (USC).<\/p>\n

UCLA landed the No. 1 transfer in Iamaleava.<\/p>\n

Other notable transfers: TE Max Klare (Purdue) to Ohio State, CB Tacario Davis (Arizona) to Washington, WR Dane Key (Kentucky) to Nebraska, DL Williams Nwaneri (Missouri) to Nebraska, DL Keeshawn Silver (Kentucky) to USC, RB Justice Haynes (Alabama) to Michigan, OL Phillip Daniels (Minnesota) to Ohio State and OL Elijah Pritchett (Alabama) to Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Season openers<\/p>\n

Aug. 28:\u00a0Nebraska<\/a>\u00a0vs. Cincinnati, at Kansas City, Missouri; Miami (Ohio) at\u00a0Wisconsin<\/a>; Ohio at\u00a0Rutgers<\/a>; Buffalo at\u00a0Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aug. 30: Texas at\u00a0Ohio State<\/a>; Montana State at\u00a0Oregon<\/a>; Old Dominion at\u00a0Indiana<\/a>; Nevada at\u00a0Penn State<\/a>; Western Illinois at\u00a0Illinois<\/a>; Albany at\u00a0Iowa<\/a>; New Mexico at\u00a0Michigan<\/a>; Missouri State at\u00a0Southern California<\/a>; Colorado State at\u00a0Washington<\/a>; Western Michigan at\u00a0Michigan State<\/a>; Utah at\u00a0UCLA<\/a>;\u00a0Northwestern<\/a>\u00a0at Tulane; FAU at\u00a0Maryland<\/a>; Ball State at\u00a0Purdue.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven Big Ten teams have settled on their starting quarterbacks. The other seven, including\u00a0defending national champion\u00a0Ohio State, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[1615,1613,2910,331,6492,7,49,48,88,996,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-10775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-college-football","12":"tag-columbus","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ohio","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114423449791570327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}