Former Texas football QB Ja’Quinden Jackson joins Cam Rising at Utah

Two former Texas football quarterbacks have now put their names in the transfer portal of late and wound up landing with the Utah Utes.

Detrimental news dropped for fourth-year head coach Tom Herman and the Texas football program over the weekend with a former highly touted four-star quarterback recruit of theirs. Texas wound up seeing the potent and talented true freshman dual-threat quarterback Ja’Quinden Jackson put his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal earlier in the week.

It didn’t take long at all for Jackson to find his next landing spot out of the portal. Head coach Kyle Whittingham and the Utah Utes apparently were in contact with Jackson rather quick after his name first appeared in the portal.

Jackson took to his Twitter timeline on the very early morning of Dec. 20 to announce his decision to take his talents to Salt Lake City to play for the Utah football program.

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Utah has now landed multiple Texas transfer quarterbacks out of the portal in the last two years. During the 2019 offseason, the Utes hauled in another former four-star Texas quarterback recruit and then freshman Cameron Rising out of the transfer portal.

Rising wound up getting knocked out for the season due to injury, after the PAC-12 started up late this fall. He could still be competing for the starting quarterback job next year, with Jackson now joining the mix. Current Utah starting quarterback, and former South Carolina Gamecocks graduate transfer, Jake Bentley likely won’t be around heading into next season. But since the NCAA gave a waiver of eligibility for anyone playing in this college football season, Bentley could technically return in 2021.

Jackson didn’t get to take really any meaningful game snaps with the Longhorns this fall. He was stuck behind the likes of redshirt sophomore Casey Thompson and freshman Hudson Card in the quarterback room for most of the season.

What Texas is losing out of the Duncanville High School product Jackson is the nation’s No. 73 2020 high school prospect, No. 3 dual-threat quarterback, and No. 10 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranked him as the nation’s No. 46 high school prospect, No. 3 dual-threat quarterback, and No. 7 prospect out of Texas.

Jackson will also be joining another familiar face to Herman and the Longhorns with the former three-star Texas all-purpose running back commit and freshman breakthrough rusher Ty Jordan. Utah is piling up quite the load of talent out of the state of Texas entering next offseason.