JT Daniels

Daniels is the face of quarterback transfers in college football. He’s hopped around, and around, in hopes of finding the right spot for himself. Once a vaunted recruit, he started at USC, but never got his footing there. He then went to Georgia, speaking to his promise and how prized he was as a recruit, but he continued to have injury issues and ceded the job to Stetson Bennett. Daniels then went to West Virginia in 2022. There, he had the starting gig, stayed healthy, and simply did not produce, eventually getting benched. With the writing on the wall, Daniels has downsized. He’s now at Rice, a team that has moved up to the AAC for 2023. Daniels is going to start for the Owls. Guys with Daniels’ recruiting hype don’t end up at schools like Rice all that often. Yes, that hype has largely proved unfounded, but there is a reason USC, Georgia, and West Virginia all gave him a shot. Water finds its level, as they say, and maybe that is what is happening here. This could be the level of college football Daniels fits at, and if so, he could put up some nice numbers with the Owls. He wouldn’t be the first former top recruit who dropped down to a Group of Five school and made a splash.