OT: Former Michigan Target 5* QB JT Daniels enters transfer portal
https://twitter.com/USC_Athletics/status/1250861932623458304
Former 5* QB JT Daniels and the #16 player in the country in the 2018 class (#1 player in 2019 before reclassifying to 2018) has entered the transfer portal from USC. Michigan was in his final 2, but ultimately chose USC for the opportunity to start as a true freshman. He had an underwhelming freshman year before tearing his ACL his sophomore year and getting passed by Kedon Slovis. He was praised coming out of high school as being one of the most cognitively advanced high school QBs ever and essentially calling the plays for Mater Dei
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that Michigan was in the Final 2 choices of an athletic recruit.
You’d be a “Dollar Menu-aire”!
You could order off the Dollar menu.
But that’s a lot of mcchickens
You can add that to being the #1 projected school too with the latest basketball recruiting news.
Gotta sign him.
He can be McCaffrey's backup.
Must have.
I think you mean Joe Milton's backup.
I think you mean McNamara
I think you mean Dan Villari’s backup
I think you mean the backup waterboy.
He coaches the Cincinnati Bearcat team already.
In two years after Dylan has lit it up I suppose Daniels will could still be here and back up Milton then
Gotta be fake. I was told Michigan was the only school that has 5* players that are busts.
Underwhelming freshman season, sure. He also had to play for Helton behind a Drevno OL when he should have been a senior in HS so... I'll give him a pass on that one.
That being said, no. Play McCaffrey or Milton. Let's get on with this.
Never said we should go after him. Just more of a PSA about a top recruit who we missed on
I agree with this. Unless you want one of current qbs to transfer, roll with the winner of the players on our roster.
Amen brother...we got some dogs in the yard waiting
uh-oh. Here we go with the transfer qb talk.....Shea Patterson 2.0???
I’d imagine bringing in JT (that is if we even pursue him) would put us at risk of losing one of the current QBs on the roster or JJ. Not sure that’s worth the risk
Not sure I buy this. The guys on our roster won't transfer just because we are pursuing a transfer QB. That's ridiculous. And if they quit that easily they weren't the guy. If one of our guys transfers AFTER Daniels comes here, he also wasn't the guy and we already have his replacement. I see no downside here.
Just a clarification: I'm not advocating for bringing in JT Daniels with this post. Just more of a PSA about a former top recruit we missed on
Not worth losing McCarthy. Or Milton or McCaffrey for that matter. He was a great recruit but UM has more than adequate talent and depth regardless.
Edit: Plus his name doesn’t start with M or Mc so he’s clearly not UM material
If only he were JT McDaniels...
I'm looking forward to seeing how Joe McMilton develops.
I can see Harbaugh's recruiting pitch now: "Hey there JT, we have experience taking former 5* QB transfers, giving them the starting job, and not holding them as accountable as other players on the team. In fact, why don't you watch Shea Patterson go undrafted and tell me if that is something you are interested in?"
If you start at QB at Michigan for two years and don’t get drafted that’s pretty much on you.
If you are the best of a mediocre group of QBs and the coaching staff is incapable of helping you improve, then I place a fair amount of the problem on a crappy coaching staff. We got damaged-Jimmy and it is so typical of Michigan’s fortunes anymore. Go Blue!
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I'd be tempted to put money down that he would end up at osu, back up Fields for a year and take over, but they've already got several young QBs in the pipeline. Not sure they'd want to clog that up even more. He'll probably end up at Washington, get a waiver and start against UM the next 2 years.
Has he been playing a lot of golf?
Um... no one has. #socialdistance
Can he play DT?
because of injuries, etc - a team can never have 'too many' quality game-ready QB's... I mean that literally, because just about every D-1 QB thinks he should be getting more snaps... and many look for a team that will provide the opportunity
he's a disaster. great day for USC.
Doesn’t matter, it’s miltonszn
Can you imagine the negative recruiting that would go on if we took Daniels? Why would any HS QB recruit go to U of M because Harbaugh is always looking for transfers. His recruits barely ever see the field.
Exactly. Ryan Day did the same thing and barely recruit anyone...
Literally 3 of the 4 teams in the CFP had transfer QBs. Teams are going to go after high end transfers if they can, especially at QB. That isn't looked down upon.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:50 PM ^
I'd rather roll with McCaffrey or Milton. Keep building with the guys who have been around Gattis and McDaniels for the last year-plus.
No. We got talent here that we should be true to. I think there's a lot to be said for continuity. Our guys are good, they are familiar with the system, our qb situation is just fine.
Shea 2.0.....NO Thanks