Former Kansas State quarterback Will Howard told Pete Thamel of ESPN that he has verbally committed to transfer to Ohio State, 

Howard led Kansas State to the Big 12 title in 2022 and gives the Buckeyes one of the most talented and experienced signal callers available on the transfer market.

Howard went 12-5 as Kansas State’s starter in 2022 and 2023 and led Kansas State to a Big 12 title game win over TCU in 2022. After evaluating the talent in the portal and based on the small sample size of perfomance evaluation from the Cotton Bowl, Ryan Day and the Ohio State staff arrived with conviction that Howard was the best among them, as they valued his arm strength, experience and dual-threat ability.

He’ll be a fifth-year senior with one year of eligibility remaining, and he’ll enter Ohio State as the favorite to start in 2024. He chose Ohio State after visiting both Miami and USC. He also seriously looked at heading to the NFL. He visited Ohio State this week and is expected to wrap up there on Thursday night.

“I’m glad I took my time with this decision,” Howard told ESPN. “Through it, I got to learn a lot about myself and college football in general. It was a great process. I’m really glad I ended up choosing Ohio State.

“I knew if that if I passed this up, I’d regret passing up the chance to go be the quarterback at Ohio State. I knew I’d be kicking myself if I passed up this opportunity.”

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