Devin Brown will not be the starting quarterback at Cal in any case.
The Golden Bears have named freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele their starting quarterback to begin the season. Sagapolutele will now prepared the ground when Cal opens the season at Oregon State on Aug. 30.
Sagapolutele gained the starting job over Brown, who transferred into Cal after spending the final two seasons as the backup quarterback at Ohio State. He appeared in 9 video games final season however solely accomplished a handful of passes whereas taking part in behind Will Howard throughout the Buckeyes’ nationwide title run. Many anticipated Brown to get the starting job at Cal, and Brown even reportedly obtained an NIL package deal in the “upper six-figure range” to hitch the Golden Bears, in line with CBS Sports. He’s now anticipated to be Sagapolutele’s backup to begin the season.
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Sagapolutele initially dedicated to Cal final summer time, however he briefly flipped to Oregon. He enrolled on the college early and spent a brief period of time practising there, however he hit the switch portal virtually instantly and dedicated to Cal. Sagapolutele was a four-star Rivals.com recruit popping out of highschool in Hawaii, and he was the No. 6-ranked quarterback in the 2025 class.
Cal went simply 6-7 final season, this system’s first in the ACC and its eighth beneath head coach Justin Wilcox. The workforce has had simply two profitable seasons in Wilcox’s tenure, most lately in 2019.
While the Bears aren’t favored to win the ACC by any means, they do have a good schedule this season. The Bears solely have one opponent that’s ranked in the AP preseason ballot on their slate, and it’s their ultimate recreation of the season — SMU on Nov. 29.
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Though he bounced round a bit earlier than his faculty profession even started, Sagapolutele is now lower than two weeks away from formally making his starting debut.