The local media and we here on the Blather have been in some serious discussions about our current QB corps. The reason for that is that coming out of spring practices there is some real trepidation about who will be the back-up QB in case starter Nate Peterman goes down with an injury.
The main questions seem to be “Can Pitt recruit good quarterbacks?” and the answer is… it depends.
That’s a loaded question and really has two ways to be answered; first is can we land highly rated QB recruits and second, can we get our recruited QBs to play at the expected level or even exceed that?
These discussions led me to want to review the last 15 years of our QBs, both those we recruited and those we placed on the roster via transferring in from another program. So, I did some digging and came up with the table below.
Before you get too deep into it here are some notes on it. The ‘Year” is the recruiting class. The numbers in parentheses are the highest national recruit ranking for the QB position the player received – I used the higher of two if the player was ranked by both Rivals and Scouts.
