Top 5 quarterbacks in college football for 2019

#4 D'Eriq King, Houston

This guy was one of the premier dual-threat quarterbacks in the country last season. Through their first eight games, they were at a ludicrous 49.8 points and 571 offensive yards per game with the Cougars flying high at 7-1, but over the next two games the 31 and 49 points respectively were not enough to win either game.

The following week, their QB was lost for the rest of the year with a knee injury and Houston ultimately lost four of their final five games. However, I don’t want anybody to forget what kind of a playmaker King was for them, He might not have the NFL prototype size sub-six feet and sub-200 pounds, but he put up a higher PFF grade in 2018 than Tua or Trevor. He scored 50 combined touchdowns last season. With him on the field, it was just bombs away.

On passes that traveled 20+ yards, King completed 21 of them for 778 yards and 11 scores compared to just one pick. However, he was equally excellent in condensed spaces, combining for 20 TDs in the red-zone. His long speed as a runner constantly burns defenders’ angles and despite being so fearless as a ball-carrier, he only fumbled four times last season. The one thing that can be questioned about King is the style of offense he is in, with a lot of simple one-read concepts off RPOs and play-action.

Edited by Raunak J