What to Expect From Your New Grad Transfer QB?

So your school just got a Grad Transfer QB, it’s the hottest new trend in college football. Now what to expect from him? For Arkansas, Ben Hicks comes in with some pretty good numbers. On the positive side he knows the coaching staff, and the staff already has a good sense of his strengths and weaknesses as a quarterback. On the negative side, he’s coming into a rough situation, with a shaky at best offensive line and he’ll face stronger and faster defenses in the SEC.

Grad Transfers are a pretty new situation so there isn’t a ton of historical data, but we do have plenty of quarterbacks in 2018 to look to. According to Grad Transfer Tracker there were 24 grad transfer quarterbacks in FBS.…