{"id":382581,"date":"2026-01-02T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:32:08","slug":"penn-state-quarterback-ethan-grunkemeyer-plans-to-enter-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382581\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer plans to enter NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State quarterback Ethan Grunkemyer<\/a> plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal<\/a> when it opens on Jan. 2. ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel first reported the news. The Ohio native, who started the final seven games of the 2025 season after senior Drew Allar broke his ankle in mid-October, could still choose to return to school. But, he is also willing to test the waters and see what other opportunities might be out there as new coach Matt Campbell works to build out his roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the great thing is we get to meet with Ethan here this week,\u201d Campbell said on The Josh Pate College Football Show last week. \u201cAnd you know, we actually recruited him out of high school, and have got a really strong relationship from that beginning process. I think globally, you\u2019ve got to look at our program, and the quarterback piece of it\u2019s critical. Because I still think whoever is going to be the quarterbacks in our program, they have to be aligned to the head football coach. And I believe when the quarterback and the head football coach are aligned in their values, how they\u2019re going to lead the locker room, what they\u2019re going to stand for, then I think great things can happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think for us, we start with the individual meetings with the young men in our program, and then we make a great evaluation of what\u2019s best for us as we move this football program forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assessing the Penn State 2026 quarterback situation<\/p>\n

With Grunkemeyer maybe moving on, the Lions are down to just one scholarship quarterback at the moment: Jaxon Smolik, a redshirt sophomore. He is a candidate to transfer, as well. <\/p>\n

Penn State is bringing two quarterbacks in from the recruiting realm. Peyton Falzone<\/a> is already officially a Nittany Lion. Former Iowa State quarterback commit Kase Evans<\/a> will join him before long. Campbell may also look to add current Cyclones quarterback Rocch Becht<\/a> via the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State quarterback Ethan Grunkemyer plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal when it opens on Jan. 2.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[186525,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-382581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-ethan-grunkemeyer-24-olentangy","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}