{"id":897909,"date":"2026-05-22T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897909\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:51:16","slug":"2027-nfl-draft-quarterback-prospect-watch-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897909\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 NFL draft: Quarterback prospect watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going into the 2025 college football season, the quarterback class was supposed to be historic. A group of 8-10 prospects was at the top of every list and the hype was real. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the big names from last year struggled leading to them either returning to college or tumbling in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the 2026 college football season, we have far more optimism about this year’s group than last. Several top prospects from last year went back to school and have a real opportunity to improve their draft stock. Here are the 12 quarterbacks at the top of our rankings heading into the season in no particular order.<\/p>\n

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1 – Dante Moore<\/a> – Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n

2 – Arch Manning<\/a> – Texas<\/a><\/p>\n

3 – Jayden Maiava<\/a> – USC<\/p>\n

4 – Julian Sayin<\/a> – Ohio State<\/p>\n

5 – Drew Mestemaker<\/a> – Oklahoma State<\/p>\n

6 – Trinidad Chambliss<\/a> – Ole Miss<\/p>\n

7 – Darian Mensah<\/a> – Miami<\/p>\n

8 – LaNorris Sellars – South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n

9 – CJ Carr<\/a> – Notre Dame<\/p>\n

10 – Aidan Chiles<\/a> – Northwestern<\/p>\n

11 – Josh Hoover<\/a> – Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n

12 – Brendan Sorsby<\/a> – Texas Tech<\/p>\n

Moore and Manning are our top two quarterbacks heading into the fall, with Maiava close behind. After that, you can toss those nine names into a hat and draw one out to see which guy lands at No. 4.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Draft Wire: 2027 NFL draft: Quarterback prospect watch list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into the 2025 college football season, the quarterback class was supposed to be historic. A group of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[20040,6451,615,59985,25688,6446,2036,67726,7,932,32622,40533,2226,6,15,683,1686,51,65456],"class_list":["post-897909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-2025-college-football-season","tag-aidan-chiles","tag-arch-manning","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-cj-carr","tag-dante-moore","tag-darian-mensah","tag-drew-mestemaker","tag-football","tag-indiana","tag-jayden-maiava","tag-josh-hoover","tag-julian-sayin","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-oregon","tag-south-carolina","tag-texas","tag-trinidad-chambliss"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116616671250639280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897909","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=897909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}