Update: Monday, 9:21 p.m. Top QB transfer target Beau Pribula has committed to Virginia, which means, we can all breathe now.
Pribula will be a grad transfer – he spent three years, including a redshirt year, at Penn State, backing up Drew Allar, before transferring to Mizzou in the 2024-2025 offseason.
He started 10 games at Missouri in 2025, completing 67.2 percent of his passes for 1,941 yards, 11 TDs and nine INTs, with 434 sack-adjusted yards on the ground – 244 yards on designed runs, 190 yards on scrambles.
Original story: QB situation kinda iffy right bow
Posted: Monday, 12:46 p.m. Outside looking in, it’s Beau Pribula, the former QB1 at Missouri, former backup at Penn State, or bust, for UVA Football, heading into the spring.
Pribula, who we were told last month had been in contact with Virginia, is now set to make a formal visit, per Pete Nakos at On3.
Pribula just visited Tennessee, which was in the market for former Arizona State QB1 Sam Leavitt, the top QB in the 2026 portal class, who just committed this morning to LSU.
The dominoes are starting to fall – Dylan Raiola, the two-year starter at Nebraska, is headed to Oregon; DJ Lagway, the two-year starter at Florida who visited UVA last week, committed to Baylor.
That leaves just Pribula and Husan Longstreet, a five-star prep recruit who saw very limited action at Southern Cal as a true freshman in 2025, uncommitted among the Top 20 QBs in the class, per rankings from 247Sports.
Longstreet was in the mix at both LSU and Oregon; I think it would be a stretch to expect Virginia to be a player with him, with the likes of Miami and Tennessee still in the hunt for a QB.
Portal pickups
Already reported
- Gotta like the addition of edge rusher Matthew Fobbs-White (Baylor), a quick 6’3”, 235-pound junior. Fobbs-White logged 387 snaps in 2025, with 33 QB pressures and 20 run-game tackles.
- Middle Tennessee tailback Jekail Middlebrook put up good numbers in 2025: 750 rushing yards, 5.4 yards per attempt, four TDs, two fumbles.
- Tennessee RB Peyton Lewis, a 6’1”, 212-pound sophomore, rushed for 630 yards and 10 TDs in two seasons at Tennessee, averaging 4.7 yards per carry.
- Rutgers cornerback Jacobie Henderson was on the field for 600 snaps, with 40 tackles, 28 receptions allowed on 50 pass targets and two pass breakups.
- Virginia Tech safety Christian Ellis played in four games at Tech in 2025, sitting out after the firing of coach Brent Pry so that he could preserve the year for redshirt purposes. In 2024 at New Mexico, playing under former UVA Football coach Bronco Mendenhall, Ellis was on the field for 900 snaps, recording 92 tackles, allowing 23 catches on 33 targets, with four pass breakups and an INT, with four QB hurries and a sack.
New (to us!)
- Edge rusher Devon Baxter (Michigan): four-star prep recruit, redshirted in 2024, did not play in 2025.
- Edge rusher Ezekiel Larry (Yale): 577 snaps, 46 QB pressures, 10 sacks, 31 run-game tackles in 2025.
- Edge rusher Jamond Mathis (Kent State): 453 snaps, 35 QB pressures, six sacks, 19 run-game tackles in 2025.
- Defensive lineman Zion Wilson (East Carolina): 457 snaps, 29 QB pressures, six sacks, 25 run-game tackles in 2025.
- Linebacker Nnanna Anyanwu (UTSA): 278 snaps, 20 QB pressures, five sacks, 11 run-game tackles in 2025.
- Cornerback Jaylen Jones (Georgia State): 562 snaps, 69 tackles, one INT, one PBU in 2025.
- Tailback Solomon Beebe (UAB): 338 rushing yards, six TDs, 31 catches/38 targets, 284 yards in 2025.
- Tight end Connor Cox (North Carolina): 5 catches/5 targets, 21 yards, 68.1 PFF blocking grade in 2025.
- Long snapper Wyatt Rubinoff (New Hampshire): 72.7 PFF special-teams grade in 2025.
Retention
- Wideout Jahmal Edrine: 46 catches/71 targets, 564 yards, 12.3 yards per catch, one TD in 2025.
- Edge rusher Maddox Marcellus: 334 snaps, 45 tackles, 11 QB pressures, three sacks, two pass breakups and an INT in 2025.
- Offensive lineman Noah Hartsoe: 65 snaps in 2025.
- Placekicker Will Bettridge: 24-of-30 FG (8-of-12 40-49, 0-of-1 50+, long: 47), 49-of-49 XPA in 2025.
- Punter Daniel Sparks: 47.2 yards per punt, 14-of-37 inside the 20, 17 50+, long: 65, in 2025.
New destinations for now-former ‘Hoos
- Backup QB Daniel Kaelin is back at Nebraska, where he will likely be the backup for former Virginia QB1 Anthony Colandrea.
- Wideout Trell Harris is headed to Oklahoma.
- Cornerback Ja’Son Prevard landed at Kansas State.
- Cornerback Emmanuel Karnley signed with Washington.
- Defensive lineman Hunter Osborne committed to Arkansas.
- Cornerback Dre Walker is going down a level, to Appalachian State, in the Group of 6.
- Also down a level: defensive lineman Terrell Jones, headed to South Florida.
Video: Transfer portal update
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