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David Pollack predicts Miller Moss as the top ACC transfer in 2025

by:Alex Byington07/08/25

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The ACC may as well be the proving ground for transfer quarterbacks after five of the league’s Top 7 teams produced memorable 2024 seasons off the back of first-year transfer QBs. Look no further than what Cam Ward and Tyler Shough did for Miami and Louisville, respectively.

But with both Ward and Shough now off to the NFL, where both are currently projected as rookie starters as first-round picks for the Tennessee Titans and New Orleans Saints, respectively, it bodes the question: which ACC transfer quarterback has the best chance to follow in their footsteps in 2025.

Former ESPN analyst David Pollack provided his answer, and it’s not who many might have expected from the Georgia alum. While there are certainly high hopes that Miami transfer QB Carson Beck will bounce back following a disappointing 2024 campaign in Athens, Pollack has eyes for another reclamation project: Louisville QB Miller Moss.

“This is easy to me. I think Beck is going to kill it (at Miami), but if you’re watching college football, and if you’ve watched Louisville and if you’ve watched Jeff Brohm, he’s a freaking superstar,” Pollack said on this week’s See Ball Get Ball with David Pollack podcast. “The way he coaches the game, the way he feels the game, the way he can use misdirection, the way he can use pro-style concepts with spread concepts. Take any quarterback — and I mean any quarterback — I think he could win with any quarterback in this league. And, I just think, with him, with their running back who’s on my fantasy team (that) I think is going to absolutely destroy it (in 2025). …

“Miller Moss also showed me some swag last year, man. Like, he showed me, because he got the shiznik kicked out of him. That dude got absolutely destroyed. That offensive line was very un-good for USC. I think Miller Moss is going to come in and absolutely tear it up at Louisville.”

Like Beck and others before him, Moss is coming off a disappointing 2024 season at USC, where he was eventually benched in favor of sophomore Jayden Maiava following an early November loss at Washington. Moss finished 2024 with 2,555 passing yards and 18 touchdowns to 9 interceptions on 64.4-percent passing in nine games during which the Trojans went 4-5.

If Brohm can work his magic and get Moss right, the sky is the limit for Louisville next season, especially in a wide-open ACC in which SMU went undefeated in conference play last season, its first season apart of the league. Behind Shough, who threw for 3,195 yards and 23 touchdowns to six interceptions last season after transferring from Texas Tech, the Cardinals closed out the season winning five of its final six games, including knocking off eventual ACC champion Clemson on the road.

Suffice it to say, Brohm has the magic touch when it comes to QBs-in-need, and, at least according to David Pollack, that could be big things for both Moss and Louisville in 2025.