Ranking the projected starting quarterbacks in the Big 12 for 2023

Big 12 football has a chance to produce some of the top quarterback talent in the country in 2023.

For one season only, Big 12 football is going to hit a historical mark.

14 teams, led by 14 starting quarterbacks, will begin the 2023 season and they come in all shapes and sizes. Multiple Big 12 champion signal callers, a couple of potential Heisman candidates and some looking for second (or third) chances.

The new teams boast transfer quarterbacks and some are having a homecoming back into the league.

Kansas seems to have a foundational piece for a program that feels out of the quicksand for the first time in 15 years. Oklahoma State has its lowest win total in a long time and quarterback play will be vital. And the two bluebloods’ season of met expectations hangs in the balance at the position.

We examine and rank the projected starting QB’s for each team in the wild west, that is the 2023 Big 12 Conference.

Big 12 Football: Ranking every starting quarterback for the 2023 season

14. Garrett Greene, West Virginia

Woof, West Virginia has many holes and the quarterback is one of the bright ones. The secondary has gotten pulverized for every off-season by the portal for what seems like the last couple of years, and the Blue and Gold are coming off their third below .500 season in four years.

The Mountaineers have not gotten above-average play out of the position since Will Grier, and 2023 shows little optimism for the cycle to break. Garrett Greene expects to begin the season as the starter, and his crafty ability to find running lanes is a bright spot he brings.

He’s rushed for 613 yards and nine touchdowns over the past two years. He’s gotten prominent playing time.

No team got to experience good Greene more than Oklahoma.

He gashed the Sooners for 119 yards and two touchdowns on the ground, to go with his 138 passing yards and a touchdown as he replaced injured J.T. Daniels to WVU’s first win over Oklahoma in the program’s Big 12 era.

The former baseball player has a good background in throwing but has yet to be asked a bunch to do so while at West Virginia. He’s getting help via the transfer portal with North Carolina State’s Devin Carter and Kent State’s Ja’Shaun Poke.

Outside of that, the receiver room looks thin after losing his top three passing targets, and although the running back room is loaded, none of them were primary passing targets in 2022.