Miami football program can tap into vast QB portal but few fit Hurricanes

The list of quarterbacks in the 2020 transfer portal is huge. Only a few of those signal-callers are likely to fit what the Miami football program is looking for.

When spring football commences in just over two months five quarterbacks will be on scholarship on the Miami football roster as of now. Rising redshirt sophomore Jarren Williams and rising redshirt juniors N’Kosi Perry and Tate Martell all have decisions to make if they want to return to Miami for the 2020 season.

The Hurricanes are expected to have a vastly different offensive system in place for 2020 under new offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee than Miami did under 2019 OC Dan Enos. The Lashlee spread offense and the high tempo is better suited to Martell than the pro-style offense of Enos was.

Perry and Williams will likely feel more comfortable as well in Lashlee’s system that will primarily have quarterbacks in the shotgun as opposed to Enos who ideally wanted his QBs under center frequently. Williams showed flashes 2019 of being the Miami QB of the future but struggled at other times to assert himself.

Perry has shown who and what he is as a quarterback during his first two years with the Miami football program. Rising redshirt freshman Peyton Matocha is expected to return and will attempt to challenge the three signal-callers mentioned above and incoming freshman Tyler VanDyke to be the Miami starting QB in 2020.

There have been some rumblings that Diaz will look to the transfer portal for the second year in a row to add a QB. Expect the Hurricanes to look for a QB that has immediate eligibility and fits the spread offense Lashlee wants to run. That limits who Miami attempts to lure to Coral Gables. Several transfer QBs have been mentioned.