Penn State Quarterbacks Last 10 Years

Penn State Quarterback 2023 is Drew Allar who would be driving the primary role for the present season. He played as a backup in 2022. 

Other QBs in second and third starting positions are:

• Beau Pribula
• Jaxon Smolik

Drew Patrick Allar was born on March 8, 2004, in Medina, Ohio, and went to attend Medina High School. There he played his high school football as the starting quarterback.

In his junior season, Drew passed for 2962 yards with 26 touchdowns whereas, during his senior year, he passed for 4444 yards with 48 TDs and seven interceptions, and finished 305 passes out of 509 pass attempts. 

Allar completed his high school passing total of 9,103 yards and 98 touchdowns along with 20 interceptions. He was also titled Ohio Mr. Football at the end of the season. 

Patrick was rated a 5-star prospect by 247Sports.com. He joined the university in 2022 and opened the season as a backup quarterback. But his college debut for the season was against Purdue as Sean Clifford exited the game because of his knee injury. 

In a total of 9 games as a freshman, he passed for 344 yards and 4 touchdowns and rushed for 52 yards with a touchdown.

Penn State Quarterbacks 2022 were Sean Clifford, Drew Allar, and Christian Veilleux starting first, second, and third in the offense line respectively. 

The 2022 season was the last year for Clifford in the position of the university as the lead QB. Starting all 13 games of the season, he passed for 2,822 yards and 24 touchdowns including seven interceptions. He completed 226 passes for 351 passing attempts. 

He also played the 2023 Rose Bowl for the Lions and maintained a record of the longest passing play in Rose Bowl history when he executed an 88-yard touchdown pass to Lambert. 

Sean was also the recipient of the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week title twice. Honored by the 2022 Brian Westbrook Regional Player of the Year, Clifford completed the university and went to participate in the 2023 NFL draft and was picked by the Green Bay Packers. 

Penn State Quarterback 2021 was again Sean Clifford followed by Ta’Quan Roberson and Christian Veilleux in the second and third starting lines. 

Clifford played as a starting quarterback in all thirteen games of the 2021 season as well. During the season, he successfully passed for 3,107 yards with 21 touchdowns and nine interceptions altogether.

Sean completed 261 passes out of 429 passing attempts. 2021 was his year of abundant achievements, honors, and awards. He was recognized by the 2021 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class and made a selection in Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. 

Clifford reserved a space on the Senior CLASS Award first team, titled All-Big Ten honorable mention and Penn State’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree, received All-Big Ten honors and handed Lion’s Pride Outstanding Senior Player Awards. 

Penn State Quarterback 2020 continued Clifford in the primary role with Will Levis and Ta’Quan Roberson in 2nd and 3rd number respectively. 

2020 was declared a global pandemic year as was hit by Covid-19. As a result, the season game was shortened to 9. Sean did appear in all nine games. He passed 1.883 yards and got 16 touchdowns with nine interceptions. Out of 251 passing attempts, Clifford completed 152 passes. 

That was 60.6% of the pass completion rate. During the pandemic season, he was titled an Academic All-Big Ten Honoree.

Penn State Quarterbacks 2019 saw Sean Clifford as the lead passer, Will Levis as the second starter, and Ta’Quan Roberson as the third. 

It was his debut in college football as a starting quarterback. Though have joined the university in 2017, he had to spend that year as a redshirt. In 2018, he was positioned as a backup to Trace McSorley and got to play four games. 

In his appearances in the given games, he gathered seven passes for 195 yards and two touchdowns in the 2018 season. 

In 2019, he was listed All-Big Ten honorable mention for the first time and titled an Academic All-Big Ten honoree. 

He attended St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati and completed passing for 4004 yards and 30 TDs. Sean Burke Clifford was born on July 14, 1998. 

Penn State Quarterbacks 2018 were Trace McSorley as the starter, Sean Clifford starting 2nd, and Michael Shuster as the 3rd starter. 

2018 season was McSorley’s concluding year for his college football career. He played against Kent State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Indiana, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Maryland, Kentucky, and more during his final year. 

In his last season, he passed for 2,530 yards with 18 passing touchdowns and seven interceptions. That went with a rushing of 798 yards and 12 touchdowns. 

During the same year, he made a Penn State record for the Most total offensive yards in a single game which was 461 yards. 

Under his lead of the offense, The Nittany Lions qualified for the Citrus Bowl but lost the game to Kentucky by a 27-24 score. 

After the 2018 season, he went to take part in the 2019 NFL draft and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round. 

Penn State Quarterbacks 2017 includes Trace McSorley once again followed by Jack Zembiec, Tommy Stevens and Sean Clifford. 

Trace started the first week of the season by passing 1879 yards and he threw 14 touchdown passes. Throughout the 2017 season, McSorley passed for 3,570 yards with 28 touchdowns and 10 interceptions going with 491 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. 

Trace was handed a number of awards and honors that year. He became the Fiesta Bowl Champion 2017, Fiesta Bowl Offensive MVP, and was titled Second-team All-Big Ten 2017. 

PSU Quarterbacks in 2019 were Trace McSorley, Tommy Stevens, and Jack Zembiac. It was Trace’s debut season as the lead quarterback.

Trace had come to the university in 2015 and played as a freshman competing only in six games. Followed by Christian Hackenberg’s departure to the NFL draft, McSorley was given the primary position. 

It was a year of his dynamic performance where he created many records, still inscribed proudly in the State’s football history book. That year he passed for 3,614 yards and 29 touchdowns with eight interceptions. That went with 365 rushing yards and seven touchdowns.

The passing yard was his college football career’s highest among other seasons. He maintained the Penn State record for most single-season passing yards, most single-season total yards, most single-season passing touchdowns, most single-season 300-yards passing games, and more. 

He was honored Big Ten Championship game MVP 2016 and Second-team All-Big Ten 2016 as well. He was an attendee of Briar Woods High Scholl in Virginia and was named First-team All-State, All-Dulles District First Term, etc. 

The best Penn State Quarterbacks of all time are Kerry Collins, Todd Blackledge, Michael Robinson, Chuck Fusina, John Hufinagel, and more. 

Below is the list of the top 10 all-time quarterbacks of Penn State University:

1. Kerry Collins
2. Todd Blackledge
3. Michael Robinson
4. Chuck Fusina
5. John Hufinagel
6. Daryll Clark
7. John Shaffer
8. Tony Sacca
9. Matt McGloin
10. Zack Mills

Among them in the list, the top 5 quarterbacks in university history are:

Kerry Collins

Kerry Collins was a former Penn State quarterback who played for the Nittany Lions from 1991 to 1994. He is regarded as the No.1 Player of the Lions.

During his collegiate career, he had 5,304 passing yards with 39 touchdowns and 21 interceptions. In the concluding years of his college football, he was already a first-team All-American, received Maxwell Award given to the nation’s best player and Davey O’Brien Award for the nation’s outstanding quarterback. 

He was also selected for UPI Back-of-the-Year and titled Players-of-the-Year. Collins was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the 1995 NFL Draft.

Todd Blackledge

Todd is ranked the number 2 all-time quarterback in its timeline. He joined the college in 1979.

He led the offense during the team’s first national championship win in 1982. During the season, Todd passed for 2,218 yards including 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He also rushed for three touchdowns. 

For his outstanding performance in 1982, he was awarded the Davey O’Brien Award which is given annually to the nation’s number 1 quarterback. 

Todd was also titled the MVP of the game during the 1983 season. 

Michael Robinson

Robinson took the lead in the quarterback position for the first time in 2005 only. He was actually searching for a good fit in the team previously and played in a number of positions. 

During his role as the QB, he threw 2,350 passing yards with 17 touchdowns to go with 806 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. 

Chuck Fusina

During his college career at Penn State from 1975 to 1978, he had 5,382 passing yards with 37 total touchdowns and 32 interceptions. 

Fusina was awarded with Maxwell Award and was honored All-American. The season of 1977 was his career-high achievement where he passed for 2,221 yards with 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Chuck was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1979 NFL draft. 

John Hufinagel

John Hufinagel led the offense from 1971 to 1972. In the 1972 season, John threw for 2,039 yards and 15 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. 

The season was in his favor for setting a number of university records. He set history for the most 200-yard passing games in a single season. He threw five times for the record. Till that time none of the players had done it more than once.

Penn State Quarterbacks in the NFL

Penn State quarterbacks in the NFL active at present are:

• Sean Clifford – The Green Bay Packers
• Trace McSorley – New England Patriots