I'll take any of the OSU guys who didn't pan out in the pros over some of the dregs we've run out here.
OSU has found good/great college quarterbacks. Dual threat guys that can pit other players in space and in ideal situations. And they are creative on offense.
You’ve been waiting a year for this to come full circle, haven’t you?
Last year Buchner was a true freshman who'd played one season of high school ball. Coan had taken a team to the Rose Bowl (and I suspect Wisconsin wishes they'd kept him around). Recruiting rankings aside, that's not a fair fight.
Really ND needs dual threats? Isn’t that what has been recruited for the last several years? Beside Fields was Dwayne Haskins a dual threat? Is Stroud really a dual threat? Seems to me that is all that’s really been recruited at ND for some time. Short dual threat QBs that can’t hit the side of a barn, and that can’t work through progressions without tucking and running! I’d rather have a Joe Burrow or Mac Jones that can hit a receiver, especially with the kind of OLine and TEs that are recruited here.
I should have used more words. Good/great QBs that fit the college game. Also dual threat guys that allow them to put their other guys in space. They are also creative utilizing their skill position speed/skill. Didn’t mean to make it sound like they are running out with Braxton Miller every week/season.
He’s a project. I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face. This is Notre Dame. HC, OC, QB… Notre Dame deserves better.
| 2022 | Tyler Buchner | So. | September 3 | 2 | 0–2 | |
| 2021 | Jack Coan | Sr. | September 5 | 13 | 11–2 | |
| 2020 | Ian Book | Sr. | 12 | 10–2 | ||
| 2019 | Ian Book | Sr. | 13 | 11–2 | ||
| 2018 | Brandon Wimbush | Sr. | 4 | 4–0 | ||
| Ian Book | Jr. | 9 | 8–1 | |||
| 2017 | Brandon Wimbush | Jr. | September 2 | 12 | 9–3 | |
| Ian Book | So. | October 6 | 1 | 1–0 | ||
| 2016 | DeShone Kizer | So. | 12 | 4–8 | ||
| 2015 | DeShone Kizer | Fr. | September 19 | 11 | 8–3 | |
| Malik Zaire | Jr. | 2 | 2–0 | |||
| 2014 | Everett Golson | Sr. | 12 | 7–5 | ||
| Malik Zaire | So. | December 30 | 1 | 1–0 | ||
| 2013 | Tommy Rees | Sr. | 13 | 9–4 | ||
| 2012 | Tommy Rees | Jr. | 2 | 2–0 | ||
| Everett Golson | So. | September 1 | 11 | 10–1 | ||
| 2011 | Tommy Rees | So. | 12 | 8–4 | ||
| Dayne Crist | Sr. | 1 | 0–1 | |||
| 2010 | Tommy Rees | Fr. | November 13 | 4 | 4–0 | |
| Dayne Crist | Jr. | September 4 | 9 | 4–5 | ||
| 2009 | Jimmy Clausen | Jr. | 12 | 6–6 | AA | |
| 2008 | Jimmy Clausen | So. | 13 | 7–6 | ||
| 2007 | Evan Sharpley | Jr. | October 20 | 2 | 0–2 | |
| Jimmy Clausen | Fr. | September 8 | 9 | 3–6 | ||
| Demetrius Jones | So. | September 1 | 1 | 0–1 |
IMO, Book didn't get better after 2018. You can't help but wonder if his stats were inflated due to his surrounding cast. In 2018 was throwing to 2 NFL draft picks at WR (Claypool, Boykin) and TE (Mack, Kmet), and had a NFL draft pick at RB (Williams). He also had 6 OL during the course of the season blocking for him that are now in the NFL.
On the other hand our WRs in 2020 were Skowronek, McKinley, Davis and Lenzy. Not a bunch of world-beaters. And Book was an NFL draft pick himself.