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Prior to this weekend, Cal had five QBs for the 2021 season - Garbers, Johnson, Rowell, Milner, and Blake DeBisschop. Glover makes six.

There's a common perception that five QBs is too few to run a program and that six is better. One QB will be dedicated to the Scout team to study and run opposing offenses - a job held by Rowell last season. To avoid giving your starting QB a dead arm, you need an extra arm to throw to receivers.

Very few freshmen that don't enroll in Spring can come up the learning curve fast enough to compete, so Milner and DeBisschop are not likely to be competitive for playtime or contribute to developing receivers. Glover can help develop receivers since he's been there and done that already. So we are another hard tackle away from leaving the team either to a guy who had a good spring and a walk-on who got to play because everyone else got hurt to be Garbers back-up.

Ryan Glover is a known quantity. He is mobile, but not quite a true dual-threat QB. He has a history of positive yards rushing. He doesn't have a lot of tape, but what I could find has him throwing a lot on the run - either by design or scrambling. So there's a lot of athletic highlights of him making backfoot, cross-body, and ad-hoc throws. And perhaps because of all that passing on the run, he is a career sub-60% completion rate guy who throws about as many interceptions as TDs while getting 7-something YPA (downfield passer, not an air raid passer). These numbers - and style - remind me of Zach Maynard. Maynard may not have been a great starting QB, but I would certainly take his second-coming as a back-up over having another 2019 Utah-like game.

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He can easily top all the photos above this Fall by getting his picture taken with Oski. Welcome to Cal, Ryan!

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Football news---=Me read

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Now he has an extra-curricular activity to pass the time when he's not studying...

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I think its great that he's transferring from Wharton to Haas!

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Smart guy! Welcome to Cal!

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