Projecting Miami Hurricanes complete 2020 QB depth chart

Projecting the depth chart at quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes in 2020 is the easiest of the position units on offense and defense to predict. D’Eriq King transferred to Miami to start at QB and the backups in order behind him are easy to anticipate.

The transfer of D’Eriq King from Houston to Miami to stabilize the quarterback position was the biggest coup by anyone in the transfer portal in 2020. Defensive end Quincy Roche announcing his intention to join the Miami Hurricanes shortly thereafter gave Miami the two best players in the 2020 transfer portal.

King will almost certainly be the starting QB if and when the 2020 season commences in September. With an entirely new offense under Rhett Lashlee in 2020, all of the QBs on the Miami roster have to learn a new playbook. If a system had already been in place that might have given an advantage to the returning QBs.

Miami had four days of spring practice before convening for spring break last month. The Hurricanes were supposed to resume spring practice on March 16 before the entire sports world was shutdown. Four practices gave King a chance to work with the receivers. Fall practice takes on greater importance now.

Losing the 11 practices they would have had this spring is tough for a new QB working on taking leadership of a new team. King received a lot of praise in the four practices Miami did have. Miami also signed QB Tyler Van Dyke in the class of 2020. The Hurricanes lost primary 2019 starter Jarren Williams to the transfer portal.

Redshirt juniors N’Kosi Perry, who has started nine of the 19 games he has played in the last two seasons and 2019 transfer portal favorite Tate Martell and redshirt freshman Peyton Matocha are the other returning scholarship QBs on the Miami Hurricanes roster. The expectation is that Perry will be the second team QB.

Martell, Matocha and Van Dyke will all get a chance in training camp this summer to compete to back up King, but the order on the depth chart seems fairly predictable. Perry is the prohibitive favorite to be the second team QB, followed by Martell and Matocha. Van Dyke is destined for a redshirt season in 2020.

With King having only one season with Miami the battle in 2021 to succeed him as the Hurricanes starting QB is expected to come down to Perry and Martell as redshirt seniors and Van Dyke as a redshirt sophomore. Matocha is bound to be a backup unless something drastically changes in the next 16 months.