MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - JT Daniels is transferring to West Virginia, which will be the 22-year-old quarterback's third college football program after stints at Southern California and Georgia.
Daniels made the announcement Wednesday on Instagram after a weekend visit to West Virginia's campus. Daniels also had visited Missouri and Oregon State in recent weeks. He is wrapping up undergraduate classes at Georgia and would be a graduate transfer for the Mountaineers, making him eligible to play for the Big 12 program this season.
Shortly after Daniels' announcement, West Virginia offensive coordinator Graham Harrell posted a short video on Twitter from a recent practice in which he yells, "Let's go!" Harrell held the same position for Southern California when Daniels was at that Pac-12 program before transferring to Georgia ahead of the 2020 season.
In two seasons at Georgia, Daniels completed 69% of his passes for 1,953 yards and 17 touchdowns with five interceptions. He went 7-0 as a starter for the Bulldogs, with five of those games against Southeastern Conference competition, one a bowl victory against Cincinnati and the other the 2021 opener against Clemson.
ESPN first reported Wednesday's decision by Daniels, who put his name in the NCAA transfer portal in January.
Daniels played at Southern California in 2018 and missed nearly the entire 2019 season with a knee injury. Harrell was the Trojans' offense coordinator from 2019-21 and was hired at West Virginia in January.
After Daniels transferred to Georgia, his injury kept him off the field until late in the 2020 season, when he started the final four games. He opened the 2021 season as the starter but was hampered by various injuries, played in only five games and was replaced by former walk-on player Stetson Bennett, who led the Bulldogs to the national championship.
West Virginia's quarterback position opened up after two-year starter Jarret Doege announced in December that he was entering the transfer portal. The Mountaineers have three quarterbacks competing in spring practices: Garrett Greene - who threw for 147 yards and was the team's third-leading rusher with 297 yards last season - Nicco Marchiol, who enrolled in January, and redshirt freshman Will Crowder.
The team will have all five starters back on the offensive line but lost leading rusher Leddie Brown to the NFL draft and had several wide receivers enter the transfer portal in the offseason. West Virginia's offense ranked near the bottom of the Big 12 last season.