Class of 2023 QB Amari Odom (NC) TRANSFERRING TO SYRACUSE (1/10/26)

[sutomcat]

How is Walker Eget rated better than Odom? What are these people smoking?

 

[RF2044]

I'm just pleased that we have a reasonably solid [and maybe better than that, time will tell] backup QB behind Angeli, who is both experienced and productive. Odom will be better / more prolific than Collins was, should he get his number called.

And that behind those two, we have a pair of guys [Lott and the Georgetown transfer] who are better than Carney.

Bottom shouldn't fall out if Angeli is slow to be ready at the beginning of the season, or if injury rears it's head again. Hope we don't have to find out.

 

[PhatOrange]

I'm just pleased that we have a reasonably solid [and maybe better than that, time will tell] backup QB behind Angeli, who is both experienced and productive. Odom will be better / more prolific than Collins was, should he get his number called.

And that behind those two, we have a pair of guys [Lott and the Georgetown transfer] who are better than Carney.

Bottom shouldn't fall out if Angeli is slow to be ready at the beginning of the season, or if injury rears it's head again. Hope we don't have to find out.

So true. We could've won last year with the GTown kid. Nice to have some (proven) quality kids in the system.

 

[CbusCuse]

How is Walker Eget rated better than Odom? What are these people smoking?

Especially since Eget was a senior and had 2 years of starting experience. Odom was just a Soph and has played a season and a half. Eget had a little bit more passing yds but Odom has the better completion %, better TD/INT and is a better runner.

 

[CbusCuse]

I'm just pleased that we have a reasonably solid [and maybe better than that, time will tell] backup QB behind Angeli, who is both experienced and productive. Odom will be better / more prolific than Collins was, should he get his number called.

And that behind those two, we have a pair of guys [Lott and the Georgetown transfer] who are better than Carney.

Bottom shouldn't fall out if Angeli is slow to be ready at the beginning of the season, or if injury rears it's head again. Hope we don't have to find out.

Oh and a former 5 star 99 rated QB out of HS who was just a redshirt Sophomore last year and has just under a year of starting experience under his belt. Not a bad flyer to add to the mix.

 

[RF2044]

Oh and a former 5 star 99 rated QB that was just a Sophomore last year with just under a year of starting experience under his belt. Not a bad flyer to add to the mix.

Forgot about him, good point.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

Amari should be 4th or 5th.

 

[wfschrec]

Kienholz and Edwards are garbage, change my mind.

 

[CbusCuse]

Kienholz and Edwards are garbage, change my mind.

Kienholz was the second string QB behind Julian Sayan who was one of the top QB's in the country. He played almost zero though so anything regarding him is pure speculation on projection.

Edwards got injured during the first game of the season in 2025 with Wisky but in 2024 was a 2900 yd passer with a 15/9 TD/INT ratio and a 65% completion %, at Maryland in the BIG10 as a first time starter. That is certainly not garbage.

 

[wfschrec]

Kienholz was the second string QB behind Julian Sayan who was one of the top QB's in the country. He played almost zero though so anything regarding him is pure speculation on projection.

Edwards got injured during the first game of the season in 2025 with Wisky but in 2024 was a 2900 yd passer with a 15/9 TD/INT ratio and a 65% completion %, at Maryland in the BIG10 as a first time starter. That is certainly not garbage.

I have seen them both play .. not impressed. OSU made it a point to get Sayin because they knew what they had on the roster wasn’t good enough. As for Edwards go back and look at his lights out performance vs Miami of Ohio, he looked awful. Neither look like game changers.

 

[CbusCuse]

I have seen them both play .. not impressed. OSU made it a point to get Sayin because they knew what they had on the roster wasn’t good enough. As for Edwards go back and look at his lights out performance vs Miami of Ohio, he looked awful. Neither look like game changers.

He suffered a grade 3 (complete) PCL strain in his left knee during the season-opening victory over Miami (Ohio) on August 28, 2025. Despite initially returning to practice, the injury was unstable, preventing him from playing further in 2025.

By looking at the stats i'm guessing it was about a half of the game. Bad stats for sure but I would think a full season the year prior is a better indicator of his talents.

 

[TexanMark]

Odom should be better than Collins. I'm not totally sold as he played at the lowest level of FBS. He had some issues in the bowl game vs WMU. Optimistic he can be a quality depth piece? Definitely

Can he lead us on a McCord or Dungey season? Probably not.

 

[Cusefan69]

I hope this young man is the backup we need but after the last 5 years I need to see this guy in action first for Syracuse before saying we addressed the issue. Looks promising but so have others.

 

[721Comstock]

I hope this young man is the backup we need but after the last 5 years I need to see this guy in action first for Syracuse before saying we addressed the issue. Looks promising but so have others.

Agreed 144%.

However - at least this upcoming season, IF we are in need of a backup to play real minutes in PB Angeli’s stead for any reason,

it won’t be
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// a walk-on Lax player.

We’ve now got 3 backup dudes who can actually complete a forward pass in college.

And naturally, we hope to never see any of them except for in mop-up time late in a blowout W.

 

[wfschrec]

He suffered a grade 3 (complete) PCL strain in his left knee during the season-opening victory over Miami (Ohio) on August 28, 2025. Despite initially returning to practice, the injury was unstable, preventing him from playing further in 2025.

By looking at the stats i'm guessing it was about a half of the game. Bad stats for sure but I would think a full season the year prior is a better indicator of his talents.

I actually watched the game and well aware of the injury … leading up to the injury he was dreadful. He stats were decent at UMD but he is not a top 10 ACC QB.

 

[anomander]

Oh and a former 5 star 99 rated QB out of HS who was just a redshirt Sophomore last year and has just under a year of starting experience under his belt. Not a bad flyer to add to the mix.

to be fair a redshirt sophomore is 3 years in college. You typically only get 4. If you haven’t shown anything by year 3, and at a lower level, i’m really not counting on much other than emergency QB after a couple injuries.

 

[TexanMark]

to be fair a redshirt sophomore is 3 years in college. You typically only get 4. If you haven’t shown anything by year 3, and at a lower level, i’m really not counting on much other than emergency QB after a couple injuries.

Pretty much agree...rare cases though where a player's learning curve goes parabolic late in his career.

We'll know soon enough...offering was a no brainer