Cal names freshman JaronKeawe Sagapolutele as starting QB in surprise move Ryan YoungAugust 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM Devin Brown won't be the starting quarterback at Cal after all. The Golden Bears have named freshman JaronKeawe Sagapolutele their starting quarterback to start the season.
- - Cal names freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele as starting QB in surprise move
Ryan YoungAugust 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Devin Brown won't be the starting quarterback at Cal after all.
The Golden Bears have named freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele their starting quarterback to start the season. Sagapolutele will now lead the way when Cal opens the season at Oregon State on Aug. 30.
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Sagapolutele won the starting job over Brown, who transferred into Cal after spending the last two seasons as the backup quarterback at Ohio State. He appeared in nine games last season but only completed a handful of passes while playing behind Will Howard during the Buckeyes' national title run. Many expected Brown to get the starting job at Cal, and Brown even reportedly received an NIL package in the "upper six-figure range" to join the Bears, according to CBS Sports. He's now expected to be Sagapolutele's backup to start the season.
Sagapolutele initially committed to Cal last summer, but he briefly flipped to Oregon. He enrolled at the school early and spent a short amount of time practicing there, but he hit the transfer portal almost immediately and committed to Cal. Sagapolutele was a four-star Rivals.com recruit coming out of high school in Hawaii, and he was the No. 6 ranked quarterback in the 2025 class.
Cal went just 6-7 last season, the program's first in the ACC and its eighth under head coach Justin Wilcox. The team has had just two winning seasons under Wilcox's tenure, most recently in 2019.
While the Bears aren't favored to win the ACC by any means, they do have a favorable schedule this season. The Bears only have one opponent that was ranked in the AP preseason poll on their slate, and it's their final game of the season.
Though he bounced around a bit before his college career even began, Sagapolutele is now less than two weeks away from officially making his starting debut.
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