CFF Burning Questions For 2025: Quarterbacks
As we approach spring camps across the college football landscape, Purple Reign has looked at schools across the country and identified 36 Burning Questions at the quarterback position for the upcoming season. These are situations that need to be monitored throughout the college football offseason. As answers develop to these questions the College Fantasy Football world will begin to have the tools to refine their expectations for this year’s fantasy drafts.
Check out all the articles in this CFF Burning Questions For 2025 series here:
Alabama – Will Kalen Deboer’s passing game look more like his days at Washington or like last season?
Alabama QB Jalen Milroe was an elite runner who carried the ball 168 times (320 pass attempts). Before Milroe, head coach Kalen Deboer had an elite passer in Michael Penix, Jr. who threw the ball an average of 555 times (35 carry average) over two seasons at Washington. These are two extremes in terms of pass/run attempt distribution. I’m going to be looking for comments on less QB runs and more drop back passes during spring camp. A pass/run attempt distribution of 450/70 would match older numbers we’ve seen from Deboer’s history.
Arkansas State – Is this the year Jalen Raynor finally puts it all together?
Jalen Raynor has been a starter since his freshman year and in two seasons has scored 241 and 249 fantasy points. Is this his fantasy ceiling within head coach Butch Jones’ offense or will Raynor take a leap in his play and finally crack 300 fantasy points? He’ll have to improve his passing game this spring to do so, but he does return his top WR from last year.
Army – Can we count on another Bryson Daily type performance out of the new QB1?
Bryson Daily benefitted from first year offensive coordinator Cody Worley last season on his way to scoring 435 fantasy points. I only have one year of history on Worley so its hard to tell if this type of statistical performance is the norm for his offense or an outlier. Head Coach Jeff Monken has only had one QB score more than 200 fantasy points since 2018 and that was Kelvin Hopkins in 2018. If I don’t see reports of someone outshining the rest of the QBs in spring camp, I’m tempering my expectations for the eventual Army QB in 2025.
Auburn – Is this the year Hugh Freeze has another breakout QB?
The best fantasy performance for a head coach Hugh Freeze QB was Malik Willis in 2021 at Liberty. Willis was better than everyone on the field and that athletic ability garnered 394 fantasy points. In the rest of Freeze’s history the next best QB was Stephen Calvert in 2019 at Liberty who scored 266 fantasy points. Both of those QBs threw for 339 and 431 pass attempts. While we might be looking for rushing production out of Freezes’s QB this season, it might be the passing attempts that determines this question.
Cincinnati – Where is Brendan Sorsby’s ceiling in year 2 as a starter?
Some people felt like Brendan Sorsby under performed in 2024. When you look at offensive coordinator Brad Glenn’s history you see the opposite. Dan Ellington scored 297 fantasy points in 2019 at Georgia State and was Glenn’s best performance by a QB until it was matched by Sorsby last season. If Sorsby is going to surpass what he did in 2024 he will need help from a WR core that lost its top performer, but has its second top performer back. I don’t think 25 passing TDs is out of the question but the WR core will need to step up to help make that happen.
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