Transfer Portal Update: Key QB Moves in College Football

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00:00As we look at the transfer portal early on throughout this offseason, we have seen some

00:08big time quarterbacks make a move and some have already signed on with their next program

00:14that includes Tulane's Darian Mensah.

00:16As we shared during the bowl game roundup, he is on his way from the Green Wave now to

00:22Durham to play for Manny Diaz and Duke in year number two.

00:27What a rivalry.

00:28We will see they're on tobacco road now in football.

00:31Manny Diaz and a nine-win Duke team with Darian Mensah, Lacey Guy, against Bill Belichick

00:36in North Carolina.

00:37Yeah, and he played well this year for Tulane.

00:39You know, you go to one game in particular against Kansas State, he stepped up and led

00:43that team.

00:44Got his team to an AAC championship against Army.

00:47He's mobile, can break, contain, and make plays with his legs, so I think it's a really

00:52good fit.

00:53And look at the elevation of Malik Murphy coming from Texas, first year in the scheme

00:56and Duke puts up dynamic numbers and had Duke at the top of the conference for much

01:01of the regular season.

01:03Manny Diaz and that staff have shown that they can cultivate and elevate talent, so

01:07I think it's a good move for Mensah.

01:09We'll see where they go throughout the ACC this year.

01:11What I'm curious is kind of a chicken and egg question of did Malik Murphy leave because

01:17Duke was interested in moving on and they thought they had a good shot at Mensah, who

01:20certainly is sought after kid.

01:23Does Murphy have his thoughts that he could get to a level above the Duke program?

01:28Again, this was a high-level recruit who was at Texas, smartly left due to what that depth

01:33chart looks like, and then they were like, all right, we gotta pivot, they pivoted successfully.

01:39That's what I'm really curious of because raw numbers people would say, boom, upgrade.

01:43Mensah's better than Murphy, but playing against, you know, the competition in the American

01:48versus that of the ACC, I'm not sure that's the case.

01:50Malik Murphy was a highly coveted transfer for Manny Diaz to build around in year number

01:55one in Durham.

01:56Malik Murphy is still going to be a highly coveted transfer in the portal right now.

02:00Darion Mensah, by some, was the top-rated quarterback prospect that entered the transfer

02:05portal.

02:06Devin Dampier, what a sensational year it was for New Mexico.

02:09Threw for more than 2,700 yards, was the only quarterback to throw for more than 2,500.

02:14It also rushed for 1,000 on the ground.

02:17He will try to provide a spark for Utah's offense, Lacey Guy, that struggled through

02:22a good majority of this year.

02:24He now heads to Salt Lake.

02:25Kyle Winningham back, by the way, for year number 21.

02:28That was confirmed this week.

02:29Yeah, I mean, I think it's good for Utah.

02:32I wonder if Dampier is making the right decision.

02:35The reason why I say that is, again, blue-collar type of offense.

02:39They have only thrown 20 touchdowns.

02:41That was with Isaac Wilson, Tam Rising in that lineup.

02:44It's almost like, you know, a blue-collar Pittsburgh type of offense prior to Russell

02:48Wilson getting there.

02:49It is interesting, though.

02:50We'll never know, truly, what that Utah offense could have been, because in that 2022 season,

02:55when they won the Pac-12 and pulled the upset over USC, it was rather high-flying.

03:01Tam Rising was sensational.

03:03Makai Bernard, who took over the reins on the ground, was great at times this year.

03:07Devin Dampier will look to electrify that.

03:10Two big names that we know, Thomas Castellanos, on his way from B.C., will now be the quarterback

03:15more than likely in Tallahassee for Mike Norvell.

03:19Part of the reason that the season went terribly from the very start was a B.C. upset over

03:24FSU in week number one.

03:27And Conor Wigman, Kev, stays in the state of Texas, leaves College Station, will now

03:31be with Willie Fritz in H-Town.

03:33Yeah, so if I hear that Thomas Castellanos is the best mobile quarterback since Cam Newton,

03:38because Gus Malzahn is the offensive coordinator, I'm going to lose my mind.

03:41People have been saying that?

03:42No, remember we did that nonsense with KJ Jefferson, which was obviously ridiculous

03:46and so disrespectful to one of the all-time great college football quarterbacks?

03:49Remember that nonsense with KJ?

03:50Well, KJ was one of the most productive SEC quarterbacks in the land.

03:54Yeah, no, again, that was always putting KJ's name next to Cam Newton's.

03:59Who said he was Cam Newton?

04:00Again, we'll leave it, Gus even said it.

04:03Some people thought Joe Milton was Cam Newton.

04:04It was Milton, much better on the NFL roster.

04:09So I look forward to the annoying Castellanos comments there.

04:12For Houston, that is an awesome roll of the dice on Conor Wigman.

04:15Look, I know people feel like he was terrible for A&M, he was never healthy for Texas A&M,

04:20I love that roll of the dice.

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