Former Texas QB Casey Thompson officially transfers to Nebraska

The news officially came down on the afternoon of Jan. 7 where the former Texas football blue-chip recruit and redshirt junior quarterback Casey Thompson will be taking his talents to next out of the NCAA Transfer Portal. Texas lost Thompson to the transfer portal this month, and he found his next landing spot less than one month later.

Thompson announced on his Twitter timeline on the afternoon of Jan. 7 that he committed to Nebraska out of the transfer portal. This is big news for head coach Scott Frost and the Huskers heading into the first full weekend of 2022. Thompson could give Nebraska their starting quarterback in 2022.

Nebraska lost their starting quarterback from the last few years earlier this offseason with senior Adrian Martinez putting his name in the transfer portal and subsequently committing to head coach Chris Klieman and the Kansas State Wildcats. Yet, if the Huskers get a healthy version of Thompson next fall, he could be an upgrade compared to how Martinez played in the last few seasons.

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Head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns kept Thompson as the starting quarterback for most of the 2021 season. But the writing was on the wall that he could be leaving the Forty Acres once Texas essentially got their starting quarterback of the future out of the transfer portal last month in the former Ohio State Buckeyes freshman signal-caller and elite five-star recruit Quinn Ewers.

There will certainly be aspects of Thompson’s game that Texas will miss. But essentially all indicators are pointing to Ewers winning the starting job as early as spring camp. Sark and the Longhorns weren’t going to put so much priority on getting Ewers out of the transfer portal unless the plan was to make him the starter right away.

What Thompson will bring to the table for the Huskers out of the transfer portal is a quarterback that had a solid 2021 campaign until he had to deal with a nagging injury on his throwing hand. That lingering injury to his throwing hand definitely hampered him down the stretch during the regular season.

Nonetheless, Thompson registered more than 2,100 passing yards in the season that was, 24 passing yards, nine interceptions, 157 rushing yards, and four rushing touchdowns. He also had a career game in the Red River Rivalry against the Oklahoma Sooners, where he threw for nearly 400 yards and five touchdown passes.

Thompson is the fourth former Longhorn to find another Power Five landing spot out of the transfer portal this offseason. He will also be one of the most high-profile transfer quarterbacks playing for a different team around all of college football in 2022.