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Mel Tucker: CU QB Steven Montez can be “a great player” for Buffs

BOULDER — Jalen Hurts bounced from Alabama to Oklahoma. Justin Fields hopped from Georgia to Ohio State; Tate Martell leapt from Ohio State to Miami. Alex Hornibook shifted from Wisconsin to Florida State; Josh Jackson hopped from Virginia Tech to Maryland.

More than a dozen top-flight Division I quarterbacks, many of them former Power 5 starters, hit the NCAA’s transfer portal this winter. If you ain’t shopping, you ain’t trying, so new Colorado Buffaloes coach Mel Tucker admitted Monday that keeping talented senior-to-be Steven Montez in the fold was one of the first symbolic victories of his tenure.