My guess is either Tim Carpenter or a portal guy to start the year. If it is Levi it will be a great sign.

If Parker does get another year I’m guessing he will be using it elsewhere.

Right now, how I see it: (This will probably change later)

1) Hype Grand
2) Tim Carpenter
3) Levi Davis
4) Incoming Transfer Portal QB

Is Jacob Winters not an option? I don't know who was considered 3rd on the depth chart this year but he seemed to dress every game is only going to be a redshirt Junior.

If I had to guess…

1A Carpenter, 1B Polous
3 Hype
4 Shoutout my boy Jacob
RS Levi

Who is Hype Davis? Does he combine the best of Hype Grand with the best of Levi Davis?

I don't see Ishpording posting that tweet at this time if we were just going to rely on an internal competition only for the position. That tells me we are going to get someone out of the portal and with the expectation he wins the job.

I'm putting almost no stock in Hype. Would love to have him on the roster but I just am having a hard time seeing the fit at Ohio. He's from the other side of the country, went to 3 or 4 high schools in 4 years, and is looking at an uphill camp battle for playing time and a new coach. That's the recipe for a one-way ticket out of town.

Ugh I am not a Poulos guy, however, he may be the best option to start the year with. In similar fashion to the Hauser Hire, Poulos would keep the train moving but his ceiling is very capped. Off the top of my head, I can't recall any other significant minutes besides the OSU game, which is probably why I'm not very high on him. He was overwhelmed which makes me nervous, although Parker was too.

I have no inside information about it but IMHO I don’t think Levi Davis would skip the rest of his senior year if he didn’t think he had a good shot to be the guy sooner than later.

I know Hype was a high school qb but are we all assuming he was recruited to be a qb? He was Def a running qb, no? Great athlete that we could hopefully find a place to plug in?

One of my co-workers is a big college football fan and I showed him the odd name of the signing and the very strange combination of schools that had recruited Grand when he signed. I just said,"What are the odds that he sees the field here." But when you got an offer from a program the caliber of Texas A&M then the guy must have a lot of talent.

I was thinking about this a month ago. With the transfer portal it is hard to predict because it is usually nearly impossible to guess who the transfer might be. However, in most cases you could guess it will be a guy in house (or recruit), a guy in house or a transfer, or one of two guys or a transfer. In our case there were a bunch of guys that you could see for varying reasons.

Parker Navarro would have to get an injury redshirt and decide to play here.

I'm the guy who first mentioned Poulos but as I was thinking about it late-season, not only does he have to get another year some way and choose to stay but I also wondered if him being the #2 this year meant the staff currently saw him over Grand or Carpenter if they all came back. Grand looked like the was dressed most games but I assume they wanted to redshirt him. When I looked early in the year, if I recall correctly, Carpenter wasn't dressed. I am guessing he was injured and even if maybe he could have played late in the year, he maybe didn't because there wasn't a lot of reason, and also either out of caution or to make it easier to get an injury redshirt at a later date. I think that it is plausible that Hauser and Isphording don't see Poulos with the inside track even if he is here next spring.

I can see why some predict Davis as a Mr. Football finalist but unless he is the clear choice it is easy to think he'll just be redshirted. Though, if that happens, Grand or Carpenter could be blocking him as starter for a while. Of course, you can't predict if whoever it that is might be in the P5 in 2027 as well.

I think that it is much harder to see Papas and Winters as a potential starter next year.

If Poulos AND Winters are gone, we should get another quarterback. Even if they are behind Carpenter and Grand on the depth chart, that's a better situation than your third stringer being a true freshman.