High 10 faculty soccer QBs in 2025: Cade Klubnik, Arch Manning battle for No. 1

The school soccer calendar may be in its down interval, however we hold shifting alongside in previewing the 2025 faculty soccer season. A few weeks in the past, I shared my post-spring high 25 rankings. Now, I wish to share my high 10 quarterbacks for the upcoming season.

After I did this train final 12 months, I truly solely ranked the 5 greatest quarterbacks within the sport coming into the season. This is not an inventory of fellows who I essentially assume can have the ten greatest statistical seasons in 2025. Quite, these are the ten quarterbacks who I feel can have the perfect seasons between particular person efficiency and main their groups to a profitable season. 

So, listed here are the ten quarterbacks who I feel can have the perfect seasons in 2025. 

I truly had Beck at No. 1 once I did this checklist final offseason, and I really feel like this rating is giving him the good thing about the doubt. There are numerous issues that crept up in the course of the 2024 season and now within the offseason that give me a bit of little bit of pause.

By way of on-field issues, Beck turned the ball over a bit of an excessive amount of. Sure, Georgia wasn’t that proficient on the skin, and it had extra drops than any extensive receiver corps within the nation. That was clearly an issue and wasn’t essentially his fault. However he nonetheless turned the ball over an excessive amount of and you’ll’t anticipate your workforce to carry out at its highest capabilities once you do this.

Off the sphere, Beck is coming back from the UCL damage he suffered within the SEC Championship Sport. We actually haven’t seen him throw within the spring and he hasn’t been in a position to kind any rapport together with his new workforce and receivers. He was solely cleared to throw not too long ago. I feel that damage is an even bigger deal than individuals notice.

Nonetheless, I feel Beck is a very good participant. There’s a purpose why I had him as my No. 1 quarterback coming into 2024.

This one would possibly shock some and there have been a couple of different names I debated placing at No. 9 and 10 (resembling Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson and Iowa State’s Rocco Becht) earlier than settling with Altmyer and Beck. I picked these two to spherical out my high 10 due to expertise. This will probably be Altmyer’s third season beginning. We’ve seen that the quarterbacks who play greatest on this NIL, switch portal period are guys with numerous expertise.

Altmyer isn’t the flashiest man in my high 10. He additionally doesn’t play in an offense that may permit him to publish big-time stats. However he’s on a workforce that received 10 video games final season and Illinois has a schedule that would permit it to succeed in the School Soccer Playoff. His touchdown-to-interception ratio a 12 months in the past was 22-6. I actually like that. He also can run when he must.

Sellers took off within the second half of final season and if he can maintain that in 2025, then we’ve obtained a star on our arms.

Sellers is large at 6-foot-3 and 240 kilos, so he’s actually powerful to convey down. He’s additionally athletic and may get out on the sting. That was obvious within the Clemson recreation when Sellers rushed for 160 yards. He nonetheless has some room to develop as a passer, however I’m going to wager on the potential and I feel he might be an All-SEC man.

Much like Sellers, Lagway additionally took off late final season. I feel SEC followers are going to be a bit nervous about their groups dealing with Lagway. He’s a star and could possibly be a famous person by the tip of the 12 months. He got here in at halftime of that Tennessee recreation and almost pulled off the upset. I do know Volunteers followers don’t just like the matchup in opposition to the Gators as a lot this 12 months in comparison with latest years due to Lagway. That’s how good Lagway already is. 

After departing the Georgia recreation early resulting from damage and lacking the Texas recreation, Lagway returned and helped Florida win its remaining 4 video games. These wins included victories over LSU and Ole Miss, outplaying Jaxson Dart within the latter. He nonetheless had some interceptions, turnovers and accomplished simply 60% of his passes, so he’s obtained to wash that up. However you’ll be able to anticipate a few of these errors from a freshman.

Nussmeier won’t be essentially the most athletic man on the market, however he’s enormous and threw for over 4,000 yards final 12 months. He’s an absolute gunslinger – good and dangerous, he can take some probabilities – however he’s going to place up numbers and I feel LSU will probably be a very good workforce this season. Actually, I feel this ought to be Brian Kelly’s greatest LSU workforce but, partly due to Nussmeier.

Like a couple of different quarterbacks on this checklist, Nussmeier wants to chop down on the turnovers. He had 15 final season. He’s a conventional pocket passer who received’t bail you out together with his legs, so minimizing turnovers is a should. These gamers aren’t the erasers that athletic quarterbacks are.

LSU actually improved its extensive receiver corps, doubtlessly permitting Nussmeier to enhance his turnover drawback. He ought to be actually terrific, although, in 2025.

I attempted to tempo myself with this rating as a result of I’m additionally actually excessive on Penn State, who I ranked No. 1 in my post-spring high 25. I’ve cherished Allar since I watched him heat up for his first recreation as a real freshman in 2022, however he is obtained to take the following step in 2025. 

I’ve seen the expansion with Allar so far. He performed some wonderful soccer in 2024. Some would possibly level on the stats and disagree. Nevertheless, once you have a look at how he performed the place, his accuracy, decision-making, improvement and far more, he confirmed some good things. There is no doubt there are issues he can get higher at, however his extensive receivers have been beneath common. That is not unreasonable shade. That group of gamers did not file a reception in a CFP recreation final season. 

Texas & Ohio State in Joel Klatt’s Put up-Spring high 5 groups

Allar has gotten a foul rap, even from some Penn State followers. However he is obtained unimaginable talent ranges and has proven the flexibility to run, even when he won’t use his legs to tear up opposing defenses. He took a step ahead with offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki final season and was higher at pushing the ball down the sphere. 

The subsequent step for Allar, and his workforce, is that he has to beat a program that Penn State is both equal to or lesser than from a expertise standpoint. I feel Allar can play greater than this rating and I would not be shocked if his identify entered the Heisman dialog in some unspecified time in the future subsequent season.

Leavitt had an important 2024 season and will have an incredible 12 months in 2025. The Solar Devils should discover a manner, although, to make up for the lack of operating again Cam Skattebo. He was so vital to them simply from a numbers standpoint. 

Leavitt will get extensive receiver Jordyn Tyson again, at the very least. As another quarterbacks on this checklist have questions at receiver or misplaced their high goal from final season, Leavitt will proceed to throw balls to a man who had 1,101 receiving yards final season. Leavitt can also be a risk to make performs together with his legs, dashing for 60 yards within the CFP loss to Texas this previous season.  

This offense underneath third-year coach Kenny Dillingham ought to put up factors and have an opportunity to repeat as Huge 12 champs. It will be tough because of the depth of the league, however Leavitt ought to assist give them an opportunity. 

Primarily based on what I’ve seen from different quarterback rankings, I am very excessive on the Washington State switch in comparison with others. After I ready to name the Vacation Bowl between Washington State and Syracuse, I got here away so impressed with Mateer after watching each single considered one of his performs on movie. He is actually proficient as a thrower and athletic. He quietly put up the most effective seasons for a quarterback within the nation final 12 months as he was the one participant to common at the very least 250 passing yards and 50 dashing yards. For those who took out sack yardage, Mateer would’ve had over 1,000 dashing yards.

Now, Mateer will probably be within the highlight. There’ll clearly be a soar in competitors for Mateer. Nevertheless, he adopted his Washington State offensive coordinator, Ben Arbuckle, to Norman. So, he will not should study a brand new system like another quarterbacks who have been on the transfer this offseason. 

The No. 1 decide within the NFL Draft, Cam Ward, performed on the similar stage he was at with Washington State when he transferred to Miami. I would not be stunned if we noticed one thing related with Mateer. Oklahoma and Mateer can have a a lot more durable schedule than what Miami and Ward had final season, however the brand new Sooners quarterback will get an opportunity to indicate his mettle after they host Michigan in Week 2. 

I’ve obtained to rank Manning this excessive as a result of I imagine in him, his coach and this system round him. Sure, I do know I am large on expertise, however did you see him play in these two video games final 12 months? Steve Sarkisian has all the time performed a powerful job of constructing across the instruments he has. He has a giant quarterback in Manning, who’s 6-4, 225 kilos, can transfer and has a powerful arm.

Actually, I feel Manning’s obtained a stronger arm than Quinn Ewers. There was a distinction to the offense when Manning was taking part in final season in comparison with when Ewers was underneath middle. That is not a knock on Ewers, however Manning made Texas’ offense extra dynamic. He was in a position to put extra defensive gamers in battle than Ewers. Manning can put edge rushers in battle, which I do not assume some individuals knew he might do due to his athleticism. He also can put safeties in battle due to his means to threaten all the subject together with his arm and legs. 

Arch Manning & Cade Klubnik in Joel Klatt’s high three QBs for the 2025 season

Manning goes to be actually good. It may be a projection and the final identify may be inflicting some bias, but it surely seems like that is simply going to work out. If there have been a quarterback with the very same construct and traits, however with a distinct final identify whereas taking part in underneath Sarkisian and that Texas offense, I might really feel simply as sturdy about that participant, too.

Whereas Manning would not have expertise, sitting and studying the final two seasons ought to be helpful and can permit him to hit the bottom operating. He jogs my memory numerous Trevor Lawrence once you see him get shifting with the ball in his arms – we noticed that on a few TD runs final 12 months. I feel that is a really applicable comparability, and we noticed what Lawrence was in a position to do immediately for Clemson.

I am a giant believer in Clemson for the 2025 season, primarily as a result of I feel Klubnik would be the greatest quarterback within the nation. There have been some questions surrounding Klubnik at the moment final 12 months, with a few of us questioning if he could lead on Clemson again to title rivalry.

However Klubnik started to quell these considerations final season and confirmed why he was the No. 1-ranked quarterback in his recruiting class. He was in a position to efficiently push the ball down the sphere extra, finishing the third-most passes with an air yardage of at the very least 20 yards. He is actually athletic as properly.

On high of all of that, Klubnik has some actually proficient receivers round him and can have offensive coordinator Garrett Riley again. So, it is an ideal storm for him. He matches the prototype of the quarterback prone to have essentially the most success coming into 2025. It will be actually tough for me to choose anybody aside from Klubnik as my preseason Heisman favourite. We should always anticipate an important season out of him. 

Joel Klatt is FOX Sports activities’ lead faculty soccer recreation analyst and the host of the podcast “The Joel Klatt Present.” Observe him at @joelklatt and subscribe to the “Joel Klatt Present” on YouTube.

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