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Message: [QUOTE="CbusCuse, post: 5639208, member: 507"] The more I look into this, I think this is a no brainer excellent pickup. At the very least, he is a great practice piece to add to the mix. We have Angeli as QB1 “fingers crossed”. We have Odom who we all expect to be QB2. We added Lauter who is hopefully serviceable. I mean this kid is exactly what we want after picking Odom up. It’s not easy to sign another talented player at this point. He is a guy that can compete for the QB2 role and has all of the tools to perform very well if he gets an opportunity and everything slows down. He is uber talented obviously after being ranked near the top of his recruiting class. You can see why if you watched his HS highlights. I’m pretty sure that he would be at least as good for us this coming season as Rickie was for us last year. A season in which Rickie was our #2 and was almost our #1 going into the year. He has certainly seen more college game time than Rickie had coming in. Malachi was a top 13 OVERALL recruit in the country. Of course he was leaving USC if he didn’t see an immediate opportunity to see the field. At USC He played behind starting QB Caleb Williams and they had Miller Moss in the wings. He transferred to Boise State who typically has good QB’s as well. That season they had a QB in Madsen who put up 3000 passing yards, 23 TD’s and 6 INT’s and was returning for the 2025 season. Of course he’s going to transfer again. He wants to play. He gets to UTEP and was still just a redshirt Sophomore. He’s QB1 to start the season and gets benched in the middle of his 6th game against Liberty, after passing for 1163 yds, 55%, 8TD’s and 9 INT’s. Not good but this was really his first time seeing action. Not that it matters much but his replacement at UTEP put up pretty much identical stats to Malachi. He really didn’t perform any better than him. I know his stats were not good but he was also playing on a squad who had 2 wins in 2025 and just 3 wins the year prior. Not much talent there. this was his first time as a starter in college. Not every player lights it up immediately when they get their shot. Especially if they are playing Ina bad team. Some take a bit longer to adapt to playing at a higher level. He’s only played 5 1/2 games. He could still be pretty good yet in college and I don’t think it’s necessarily a long shot. Take Amari Odom for example who we are all very happy to pick up after having a very solid season after he transferring to Kennesaw state. But the year prior he had started 8 games for Wofford in his first starting opportunity. He put up 1565 yds passing at 55%, and just 7 TD’s and 6 INT’s. Sound similar. Not good. Let’s hope everything starts to click soon for Malachi. I’d a gamble on this player any day. [/QUOTE]

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