Top 10 Quarterbacks heading into 2026! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Spring camps are over so we decided now was the best time to give you McElroy’s Top 10 QBs entering the 2026 season. Where will Arch Manning rank? How much does Dante Moore have to prove at Oregon this year? Where will CJ Carr and Jayden Maiava rank and who are the immediate impact transfers? McElroy goes over all of it plus gives you some honorable mention QBs who could work their way into the top 10 after the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.4	This quarterback class this year, across the board, we've done our honorable mentions.
0:36.6	We've done our top 10. We did our first two out. We did all those. I guess has a chance to be the board. We've done our honorable mentions. We've done our top 10. We did our first two out.
0:38.3	We did all those.
0:39.8	I think this has a chance to be the best quarterback year we've seen in recent memory.
0:49.9	Hello and welcome in.
0:51.0	It's always college football.
0:52.4	I'm your host, Craig McElroy.
0:53.5	Glad to have you here with us today. Let me tell you what this episode is all about. It's not a list. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. Glad to have you here with us today.
0:55.2	Let me tell you what this episode is all about. It's not a list of the 10 most hyped quarterbacks in college football.
1:01.6	It's not a ranking of NIL potential. This is an honest account after having watched and spent a lot of time.
1:08.9	This show takes a lot of time. One, it's a labor of love
1:11.5	because I want to watch the guys. And I feel like you as our audience, they deserve to actually
1:19.1	get a real comprehensive list of who should be where. And a lot of these rankings, frankly,
1:25.8	when I look all over the landscape or based on what you were as a high school recruit, this is not that.
1:31.5	This is really about what you are, what you've been, and where you're going.
1:37.1	Some of this is trajectory, some of this is potential, some of this is looking forward because let's look at the 2025 Heisman trophy winner, for example, Fernando Mendoza, not in our top 10 last year. However, guess what? He was on the honorable
1:49.6	mention list and has since gone on to do amazing things. Of course, number one overall pick in
1:54.6	the NFL draft. Diego Pavia, not in the top 10, very different NFL potential, right? But still at the college level,
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