The former Penn State QB earned the starting job in two seasons at UConn but they didn’t go as planned or hoped.
UConn football’s starting QB for most of last season is entering the transfer portal. Ta’Quan Roberson announced on the May 1 deadline that he intends to switch schools this offseason.
Roberson was a four-star high school recruit who spent two injury-riddled seasons at Penn State before serving as a backup in Happy Valley and seeing some light work as a redshirt sophomore.
Roberson transferred to UConn under then-new head coach Jim Mora for Mora’s first season at the helm. A knee injury suffered in the season’s second drive kept him out for the season and on the road to recovery.
The following offseason, UConn added Joseph Fagnano as a transfer QB from Maine, where then-offensive coordinator Nick Charlton was previously the head coach. Fagnano ended up winning the starting job but he left the second game of the season at Georgia State with an injury and didn’t play again. Now Charlton is gone but Fagnano remains and has a decent shot at the backup job or the starting gig.
This offseason, UConn has been in the mix for a transfer quarterback. Nick Evers, a former four-star recruit who began his college career at Wisconsin, was on campus for a visit last month for the Spring Showcase. He’s the only QB that we know of who made a visit.