Twenty-four hours ago, roughly, Wahoo Nation was at its wit’s end over the QB situation, with Chandler Morris denied a seventh year of eligibility, and his backup, Daniel Kaelin, transferring to Nebraska, to be the backup there.
I kept telling the folks who emailed me about the end times being nigh to have faith.
Those who heeded the advice have had their faith rewarded.
It’s not even arguable that Virginia is in a markedly better place with its QBs than it was going into the offseason, and I’d throw in, I like the QB room for 2026 better than the one we had for 2025.
On Monday, the commit that flipped the script was Beau Pribula, the starter at Missouri in 2025, who the UVA Football front office had first made contact with back in mid-December, within hours of Pribula hitting the portal.
The pickup on Tuesday is the former QB1 at Pitt, Eli Holstein, who reportedly visited Grounds late last week.
Pribula will be a grad senior; Holstein will compete in 2026 as a redshirt junior.
It’s hard to imagine either wanting to hold the clipboard, so what happens between now and the fall will be, you know, interesting.
Pribula 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.
Holstein, over two seasons at Pitt, completed 61.8 percent of his passes for 3,309 yards, 29 TDs and 13 INTs, with 576 sack-adjusted yards on the ground – 198 yards on designed runs, 378 yards on scrambles.
There’s no way to know what they’re getting in NIL and revenue-sharing, but both have to be seven-figure guys.
Relax, and enjoy the basketball season now.
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Chris Graham
