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The former quarterback for Rutgers revealed on Tuesday that he would be transferring to Kentucky. The choice was made less than a week after he registered on the transfer portal and one day after he visited Lexington.
Wimsatt’s eligibility is still valid for two more years.
He entered the exchange entrance on May 1st, less than 24 hours after head coach Greg Schiano educated him that Minnesota exchange Athan Kaliakmanis was named the Red Knights’ beginning quarterback for the 2024 season.
At Kentucky, Wimsatt will confront a comparative circumstance. The Wildcats included Georgia exchange Brock Vandagriff prior this offseason, and after a strong spring, the previous five-star prospect ventures to begin for Check Stoops’ program.
Wimsatt’s choice to exchange concluded an up-and-down career in Piscataway for the Owensboro, Kentucky, local.
He driven Rutgers to its to begin with winning season in about a decade final drop, making a difference them wrap up with a 7-6 record coming full circle in a win over Miami within the Pinstripe Bowl. He had the most noteworthy hurrying season by a quarterback in program history, collecting 493 yards and nine touchdowns on 112 non-sack carries, per ProFootballFocus.
But Wimsatt battled powerfully through the discuss, completing fair 47.8% of his passes (138/289), stamping the least completion rate among the 157 FBS quarterbacks with at slightest 125 drop backs this season, per ProFootballFocus. His balanced completion rate (58.8%) the fifth-lowest among the gather.
Wimsatt wrapped up final season with 1,734 yards, nine touchdowns and eight interceptor.
“(The coaching staff does) a great work of fair assessing and keeping (where the quarterback fight is inclining) between themselves,” Wimsatt said after the spring amusement. “I think me and Athan do a great work of not getting as well caught up in that. We’re competing, we’re gonna compete, but fair picking each other’s brains and not letting it influence us off the field. (Athan may) be a great guy, he’s lifted up our room an extremely great sum with his experiences.”
The quarterback arrived to much show at Rutgers. He enlisted at the school early, skipping his senior season and arriving ahead of the moment amusement of the 2021 season after seeing individual standout enroll Quinn Ewers do the same at Ohio State. Wimsatt made a staggering make a big appearance against Illinois a month afterward in October, at that point flashed his potential in a cameo at the Gator Bowl against Wake Woodland to conclude the season.
Wimsatt’s redshirt first year recruit season was a roller coaster as well. He showed up in Rutgers’ to begin with three diversions final season — counting his to begin with career begin against Wagner — some time recently enduring a lower-body harm that kept him out for three diversions. He recuperated in time to highlight within the last five diversions of the season, but between his inability and the waiting harm, he put together a harsh statline:
757 yards, five touchdowns and seven interceptor on 65-of-145 passing — the 44.8% completion rate was the second-lowest among the 146 FBS quarterbacks who tossed at slightest 125 pass endeavors this season, per PFF — to go with 156 surging yards on 21 non-sack carries.