{"id":392477,"date":"2026-01-07T05:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:26:04","slug":"unlv-quarterback-anthony-colandrea-commits-to-nebraska-out-of-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392477\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV quarterback Anthony Colandrea commits to Nebraska out of NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNLV<\/a> quarterback Anthony Colandrea<\/a> has committed to Nebraska<\/a> out of the NCAA transfer portal<\/a>, according to On3\u2019s Pete Nakos. He spent one year with the Rebels, having a breakout campaign.<\/p>\n

Colandrea transferred to UNLV to join Dan Mullen<\/a>\u2018s offense after spending two years at Virginia<\/a>. He had mixed results with the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

In two years with Virginia, Anthony Colandrea threw for 4,083 yards and 26 touchdowns. He threw 20 interceptions, though, which was a bit of an issue for the Cavaliers. He sought a fresh start elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He landed with UNLV and first-year Rebels coach Dan Mullen, who is known as an offensive guru of sorts. Mullen has produced a ton of excellent college quarterbacks over the year, from Alex Smith<\/a>, to Tim Tebow<\/a>, to Dak Prescott<\/a>, to Kyle Trask<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anthony Colandrea immediately fell into a rhythm at UNLV. He had a career-best 65.9% completion percentage, throwing for 3,459 yards and 23 touchdowns in 14 games. He threw nine interceptions, but this time the touchdown-to-interception ratio was much more favorable.<\/p>\n

Now, Anthony Colandrea will head into a quarterback room needing some new life. Former star recruit and Nebraska starter Dylan Raiola<\/a> has opted to transfer out.<\/p>\n

Can Anthony Colandrea replace Dylan Raiola?<\/p>\n

Following a back-and-forth process in looking for a new quarterback out of the portal, Nebraska landed on Anthony Colandrea as a potential answer. He\u2019ll have big shoes to fill. Dylan Raiola entered the NCAA transfer portal after spending the last two seasons in Lincoln.<\/p>\n

Raiola was limited to just nine games due to injury as a sophomore. He finished 2025 with 2,000 yards, 18 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 72.4% completion percentage. In his career, Raiola has 4,819 yards, 31 touchdowns, 17 interceptions and a 69.1% completion percentage.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Class of 2024, Raiola was a five-star recruit out of Buford (Ga.) High, according to the Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a>. He was the No. 2 overall prospect in the state, the No. 3 quarterback in the class and the No. 21 overall prospect in the class. He chose Nebraska over Georgia after flipping his commitment.<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Nick Kosko also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNLV quarterback Anthony Colandrea has committed to Nebraska out of the NCAA transfer portal, according to On3\u2019s Pete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[190329,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-392477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-anthony-colandrea-23-lakewood","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392477","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=392477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}