By Jack Curtis, Cal Sports Report: Every Pac-12 school except Stanford, Arizona State and USC had a quarterback leave or arrive via transfer since the end of the 2020 season. And USC (J.T. Daniels to Georgia) and Stanford (K.J. Costello to Mississippi State) had their opening-game starting quarterbacks from 2019 leave after last season, while Arizona State (Jack Smith to Central Washington) had a quarterback move in September 2020.
Cal should be happy that starting quarterback Chase Garbers has no intentions of leaving, because starting quarterbacks are on the move too. Three players who were the starting quarterbacks at Pac-12 schools in 2020 have transferred out – Oregon’s Tyler Shough to Texas Tech, Utah’s Jake Bentley to South Alabama and Arizona’s Grant Gunnell to Memphis.
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