PFF makes surprising pick for best returning QB in college football

Cade Klubnik figures to beryllium successful speech to beryllium nan number 1 wide prime successful nan 2026 NFL draft. It's a beautiful unfastened title correct now, but nan Clemson standout is 1 of nan champion signal-callers successful assemblage football. How bully is he? According to PFF, he's nan champion backmost returning this year, which is thing fewer thought was imaginable successful nan early days of his career. 

PFF's Max Chadwick said, "There mightiness not person been a much improved backmost successful assemblage shot this past play than Klubnik. After placing 102nd among FBS signal-callers successful 2023 pinch a 63.9 PFF passing grade, he classed 5th successful 2024 pinch an 87.7 mark. Only Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders threw much touchdowns than nan inferior (36)," and those 2 sewage drafted, pinch Ward going first overall.

The Clemson backmost besides classed 5th successful big-time throws pinch 28." Chadwick added, "The apical backmost enlistee successful nan 2022 people is yet starting to unrecorded up to nan hype and has nan imaginable to return a loaded Clemson roster to nan promised onshore arsenic a senior." Klubnik outranks each of his peers, pinch only Sam Leavitt and Carson Beck coming successful close. 

There whitethorn beryllium a freshman aliases incoming assemblage QB that could extremity up being amended than Klubnik, but nary existent subordinate who has a people from past play is classed higher than nan Clemson star. A fewer years ago, he looked for illustration a grounded recruit, and now he could lead Clemson backmost to nan promised land. If thing else, he could extremity up arsenic a franchise backmost astatine nan adjacent level.