Jeff Brohm is entering his third year at Louisville, and he’s doing it with his third different transfer portal quarterback. This time around, it’s Miller Moss replacing Tyler Shough, who became the second-round pick of the New Orleans Saints in the 2025 NFL Draft. While turnover at the most important position might scare other coaches, Brohm embraces it as the new reality of the sport.
“I may be a little bit different than others,” Brohm began his response to a question about Moss on the desk with the ACC Network crew after his media availability on Wednesday in Charlotte, “we’re not scared to have a new roster every year. That’s kind of what this game has gone to, I didn’t make the rules, we just got to abide by them.”
Jeff Brohm’s reputation with QBs is a huge selling point for Louisville
Brohm is uniquely suited for this era because of the former quarterback’s ability to develop the position. From his days at Purdue, Brohm has garnered a reputation as a quarterback whisperer, and that carried over to Louisville with successful offenses led by Jack Plummer and Shough, leading to 19 wins in two seasons.
That track record was one of the biggest selling points for Moss, who also spoke at ACC Media Days on Wednesday.
“I think it was certainly an attractive part of it,” Moss said of Brohm’s previous success with transfer quarterbacks. “Obviously, different coaches try to sell you on different things, but when there is consistent proof of your ability to do a certain thing, it transcends any words you here in a meeting.”
Moss is coming off a career with another of the sport’s preeminent QB whisperers in Lincoln Riley, who benched him in favor of Jayden Maiava midway through last season, Moss’s first as a starting quarterback. That led Moss to transfer to Louisville, and presents a significant challenge for Brohm as he looks to elevate his quarterback’s play beyond what Riley, who has produced three separate Heisman Trophy winners at the position, was able to do.
No time off: Brohm’s hands-on summer strategy for QB development
According to Brohm, step one in that process is to make up for lost time. With Brohm leaning so heavily on the transfer portal to solve his QB conundrums, he’s been forced to expedite his relationships with those players, and sometimes that means no summer trips to the beach.
“The roster is going to change, but you’ve got to continue to build your team and improve it, and for us, that’s going to require you spending a lot of time with the new players,” Brohm told the ACC Network desk. “So, all spring, all summer, even myself, like I spend a ton of time extra with our quarterback, as far as helping him get ready to go, along with meeting with our quarterback coach and running the offense and running all the drills, so I just think you’ve got to take your vacations when the players are not there in May, you gotta take them in the winter, I don’t take vacations a lot in the summer.”
Such is the life of college football’s great QB whisperer. And if the extra time continues to pay off, Brohm’s program may be able to shirk the year-to-year variability that comes with roster building through the portal. If he goes 3-for-3 with Moss this season, it will be hard to argue that his model isn’t a viable one for consistent ACC contention.