NC State Newsstand: Where Grayson McCall ranks among all 134 FBS quarterbacks

With the college football season less than 100 days away, ESPN’s David Hale ranked every FBS quarterback going into the 2024 season. As he slotted each signal-caller, they fell into various tiers, ranking from “the cream of the crop” to the bottom 13 — creating 20 tiers.

NC State went out and nabbed Coastal Carolina transfer Grayson McCall from the portal this offseason, and Hale slotted the three-time Sun Belt Player of the Year in Tier 5b: “The Transfer Market: Origins.”

McCall was joined by Florida State’s DJ Uiagalelei and Brock Glenn, Notre Dame’s Riley Leonard and Steve Angeli, and Syracuse’s Kyle McCord and Carlos Del-Rio Wilson.

“NC State receivers and tight ends made just 17 contested catches last season (127th nationally),” Hale wrote. “Transfer additions Justin Joly and Wesley Grimes combined for 15 by themselves. The Wolfpack have also added talented receiver Noah Rogers from Ohio State and tight end Dante Daniels via the portal. Life should be a good bit easier for McCall than NC State QBs had it last season.”

While it was an ACC-heavy tier that the Wolfpack’s quarterback ended up in, the top tier included Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Ty Simpson, Georgia’s Carson Beck, Jaden Rashada and Gunner Stockton, Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel and Dante Moore, and Texas’ Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning.

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NC State baseball has a unique blend of freshmen and seniors on the roster this spring. Coach Elliott Avent was worried how that would work out this spring, but advice from former women’s basketball coach Kay Yow has helped fix that.

“I was really worried about that at the beginning of the year because we’ve got 22- and 23-year-olds and when you’re 22 or 23 in college, 18-year-olds don’t seem quite as cool,” Avent said. “The stupid stuff they do and the parties they want to go to, you’re a little bit outdated on that. I was wondering how this team was going to come together, but we have a long history of leadership here.”

“Try to get them to live all together,” Yow told Avent. “They figure things out, they figure out how to mesh and bond. If the old guys will lead the right way and the young guys will pay attention, then you can mesh them together.”