College Football: Top 5 transfer QBs who’ll make biggest impacts in 2019

4. Jacob Eason, Junior

Old Team: Georgia
New Team: Washington

Just like Tate Martell, Jacob Eason also won the National Gatorade Player of the Year award and as always these types of awards, they come along with high expectations. And based on what Eason was able to accomplish his freshman year, these high expectations didn’t seem to be an issue.

First, Eason was named as the Bulldogs starting quarterback and then he went on to throw for over 2,400 yards and although he only managed to go 8-5 that first year, he still came up with big wins over two AP Top 25 teams including No. 9 Auburn.

Eason’s first big test came sophomore year after suffering an injury on opening day and it not only sidelined for a significant part of the season but ultimately led to him losing the starting job to freshman, Jake Fromm. In fact, Fromm has proven to have such a stranglehold on the QB1 spot at Georgia that both Eason and Justin Fields felt the need to transfer.

The upside to Eason’s first two years is he’s experienced both the ups and downs of what it means to be a big name college quarterback and appears to be poised to take his game to the next level as he returns to his home state of Washington to play out the remainder of his time in college career before heading to the NFL.

The junior will be joining forces with a proven winner, head coach Chris Petersen, and despite losing many of their star players to graduation and the NFL draft, the Huskies have enough depth that this won’t hold them back too much.

Assuming Eason stays healthy, expect to see him lead Washington to a 10-win season where its only loses will come in October when they play Arizona, Stanford and Oregon.