ESPN analyst ranks all 16 SEC quarterbacks through 2 weeks of the 2025 season
By Jacob Moss
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The first 2 weeks of the 2025 college football season have been a bit of a whirlwind, and this has held particularly true for the SEC, which has seen several top programs struggle to find consistency from the QB position, while others have seen new stars emerge under center.
ESPN analyst Bill Connelly recently sat down and ranked every signal caller in the SEC through the first two weeks of the season, and he had some surprising placements to say the least.
The first guy on Connelly’s list is Missouri‘s new budding star in Penn State transfer Beau Pribula, who has quickly proven to be the elite gunslinger that the Tigers have been looking for the last couple of years.
Here’s some analysis from Connelly on Pribula’s start to the season:
He left Penn State in search of a starring role. And his first two performances have been outstanding. Pribula is fifth nationally in completion rate (79.1%) and 25th in yards per dropback, and he has more non-sack rushing yards than LaNorris Sellers. And in his first Border Showdown against Kansas on Saturday, he threw for 334 yards and led a 15-point comeback.
Here’s Connelly’s full ranking of the SEC’s passers after Week 2:
- 1. Beau Pribula, Missouri Tigers
- 2. John Mateer, Oklahoma Sooners
- 3. Taylen Green, Arkansas
- 4. Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt
- 5. Joey Aguilar, Tennessee
- 6. Garrett Nussmeier, LSU
- 7. Arch Manning, Texas
- 8. Gunner Stockton, Georgia
- 9. Ty Simpson, Alabama
- 10. Marcel Reed, Texas A&M
- 11. Auston Simmons, Ole Miss
- 12. LaNorris Sellers, South Carolina
- 13. Blake Shapen, Mississippi State
- 14. Jackson Arnold, Auburn
- 15. DJ Lagway, Florida
- 16. Zach Calzada, Kentucky
There’s still a very long ways to go in the season, so it will be interesting to see how Connelly’s list ends up changing as the year rolls along.
