It’s been a wild week of college football recruiting at the quarterback position and it was capped on Saturday with Ohio State football landing elite QB Air Noland. Here’s a look back at each QB commitment over the past week.
We have said it a number of times, but when it comes to college football recruiting, getting a good quarterback is as important as anything and we saw that this week.
Six Power-5 programs landed quarterback commitments this week. Ohio State football landed the best player on Saturday in top-100 talent Air Noland. But Miami, Louisville, TCU, Oklahoma, and Iowa State all landed quarterback pledges too.
The dominoes have started falling in the 2024 college football recruiting class at the quarterback position. Last week, five-star Jadyn Davis committed and this week, Noland, one of the other top undecided passers made his call.
That’s three top-100 prospects in the past week if you include Jake Merklinger committing to Tennessee last week.
At any rate, here is a ranking and breakdown of each quarterback that committed in the 2024 college football recruiting class this past week.
6. 3-star QB Judd Anderson to Miami
Miami was one of the teams that landed a new signal-caller this weekend as three-star Judd Anderson committed to the Hurricanes on Friday as part of the 2024 college football recruiting class.
Anderson ranks outside the top 1,000 of the 247 sports composite rankings and isn’t exactly the kind of big-time addition Miami football fans were hoping for in the 2024 class after landing a three-star a season ago, but Anderson did get offers from Georgia Tech, Pitt, and Ole Miss.
Anderson is a big kid and he’s got the tools to be a Power-5 starter down the road, but it’s going to take some development. Still, it’s better to get a talented QB with upside than no QB at all.
5. 3-star QB Connor Moberly to Iowa State
Iowa State football has done a solid job of recruiting the quarterback position over the years and got another solid arm this weekend in three-star, in-state QB Connor Moberly.
Moberly is ranked 857th overall in the 2024 class and the 6-foot-4, 195-pound quarterback is the No. 11 prospect in the state of Iowa. He’s not as dynamic as Anderson and probably doesn’t have the same upside.
However, he’s a multi-sport athlete and a guy that is known for being smart with the ball and making good decisions. He sounds like a perfect Iowa State quarterback and the Cyclones did well to land Moberly in my opinion.
4. 3-star QB Deuce Adams to Louisville
The Cardinals landed their quarterback in the 2024 college football recruiting class in Deuce Adams this week. He’s ranked 829th overall in the 2024 class out of Texas and is 6-foot-2, 179 pounds.
Adams is ranked as the 49th-best quarterback in the 2024 class and Baylor, as well as Washington State, were among the top pursuers. He had a total of six power-5 offers and 14 total.
Yet, he’s a guy with some dual-threat capabilities and according to 247 sports, he should be a great fit for the new offense being run under head coach Jeff Brohm. Adams ran for 290 yards last season in high school and threw for over 3,000 as well as 34 touchdowns.
It’s nice to have a guy that can run when needed and in the pass-happy system Brohm likes to run, Adams should be a great fit.
3. 3-star QB Hauss Hejny commits to TCU
Hauss Hejny might not be a high-ranking recruit, but he’s a dynamic athlete and if that can translate over to TCU as it has in Texas high school football, this move will work out just fine for the Horned Frogs.
Hejny committed to Duke not that long ago before the Horned Frogs started making a push for the 43rd-ranked QB in the 2024 college football recruiting class. Hejny is just 5-foot-11 and is ranked 763rd overall, as well as 114th in Texas.
Baylor, Cal, and Duke were some of the top rivals for TCU as the Horned Frogs landed a dude who threw for over 2,000 yards as a junior and ran for over 1,000. He also runs the 100-meter dash in sub-11 seconds, so there is a definite upside here, and a great fit for a spread system.
2. 4-star QB Michael Hawkins commits to Oklahoma
Yet another QB from Texas committed over the weekend in the 2024 college football recruiting class and that’s four-star Michael Hawkins who is going across the border to Oklahoma.
Hawkins is 6-foot-2, 195 pounds, and is ranked as the No. 19th-best quarterback in 2024. His offer sheet is impressive and includes a number of schools from the SEC such as Alabama and Arkansas.
What’s even better for the Sooners is that they have now landed a commitment from a blue-chip quarterback in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That’s exactly what you want in today’s world of college football and the transfer portal.
1. 4-star Qb Air Noland commits to Ohio State football
The big winner of the week in terms of quarterback recruiting and college football recruiting, in general, is Ohio State football.
The Buckeyes beat out a bunch of other programs for the commitment of top-100 QB Air Noland on Saturday. He’s the No. 8 QB in the 2024 class and his final seven included Arkansas, Texas A&M, Clemson, and a number of others such as Miami.
Just in the past week, Ohio State football has landed a top-5 running back in 2024, a five-star wide receiver, and now a top-10 quarterback.
So anyone thinking Ohio State football has taken a step back on the recruiting trail isn’t paying attention. The Buckeyes are on a roll and now, they finally have their replacement for Dylan Raiola in the 2024 recruiting class.