Oklahoma may have gone from chasing quarterback help to landing it in a matter of days.
Less than a week after Trey Tagliaferri committed to Notre Dame, the 2028 four-star quarterback decommitted on Wednesday, and the recruiting industry quickly started connecting him to the Sooners. Rivals’ Hayes Fawcett reported the change first, and soon after, multiple recruiting experts had already logged predictions for Tagliaferri to end up at Oklahoma.
By Wednesday night, 247Sports had Tagliaferri projected to Oklahoma at 100%, while Rivals put the Sooners at 93%.
The quick shift creates an odd little quarterback shuffle between Norman and South Bend. Oklahoma had been scrambling last week when Tagliaferri originally chose Notre Dame.
He was an early priority for offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle, but once he went elsewhere, Brady Quinn - no relation to the Notre Dame legend - surfaced as the favorite for the Sooners’ 2028 quarterback spot. Oklahoma offered both quarterbacks on the same day.
Now the paths could be reversing. Tagliaferri does not yet have a Notre Dame offer, but he has visited there three times.
Quinn, meanwhile, could be the one to wind up with the Irish if they extend one. His father named him after the former Notre Dame quarterback because he is such a big fan.
Tagliaferri, listed at 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds in the Rivals report, is ranked No. 11 among 2028 quarterbacks in the Rivals300. The 247Sports Composite has him as the No. 14 quarterback in the class, and he sits as the No. 9 overall prospect in New Jersey out of Bergen Catholic. Last season as a sophomore, he threw for 2,215 yards with 29 touchdowns and only three interceptions.
Oklahoma offered Tagliaferri on May 4 and brought him in for an unofficial visit just weeks later, before his commitment to Notre Dame. He also holds offers from Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Penn State, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and more.
After that visit, Tagliaferri told Sooners on SI, “OU has always produced great quarterbacks,” Tagliaferri told Sooners on SI after his visit. “OU is quarterback university, and that is somewhere I would want to be.”
If the prediction noise turns into a formal commitment, Tagliaferri would become Oklahoma’s only 2028 pledge for now and its first since running back Micah Rhodes changed his mind after running backs coach DeMarco Murray left.
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