Who will be the starting quarterback for each ACC team next season?

Max Chadwick of Pro Football Focus made his predictions for every ACC team’s starting signal caller for the 2026 campaign.

For Clemson, it comes as no surprise that Chadwick predicted rising redshirt junior Christopher Vizzina to be the Tigers’ starting QB next fall.

“With Cade Klubnik off to the NFL, Vizzina will get his chance as the starter after three seasons on the bench,” Chadwick wrote. “The redshirt junior was a top-10 quarterback recruit from the 2023 high school class and has a 55.7 passing grade on 124 career dropbacks.”

As Chadwick alluded to, before enrolling at Clemson in January 2023, Vizzina was ranked among the nation’s top prospects in the 2023 recruiting class. The high four-star had more than 30 offers, including from some of the best football programs in the country.

Heading into 2026 after his first three years at Clemson from 2023-25, Vizzina has completed 61 percent of his passes for 596 yards and four touchdowns with one interception in 238 career offensive snaps across 14 games (one start), while also rushing for 109 yards and a touchdown on 38 carries.

This past season, Vizzina appeared in five games, completing 63.4 percent of his passes for 406 yards and four touchdowns with one interception, while also rushing for 41 yards on 25 carries. He made his first career start vs. SMU at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 18, as Klubnik missed the contest after suffering a sprained ankle in the Tigers’ game at Boston College one week earlier. In the 35-24 loss to SMU, Vizzina completed 29-of-42 passes for 317 yards with three touchdowns for a pass efficiency rating of 156.0. He did not throw an interception, though he fumbled twice and lost one of them.

Along with Vizzina, other quarterbacks on Clemson’s 2026 roster include Chris Denson, who will be a redshirt freshman next season, and former walk-on Trent Pearman, who will be a redshirt senior. Clemson also signed a pair of quarterbacks in its 2026 recruiting class – four-star Tait Reynolds and three-star Brock Bradley.

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said in late January that he is the one who made the decision not to sign a transfer QB this offseason, and that Vizzina has earned the “pole position” to be the Tigers’ QB1 when spring practice begins.

“CV has done everything that’s been asked of him, and he’s earned the opportunity,” Swinney said. “He’s earned the opportunity to have the pole position. He’s got to win the race, but he’s got the opportunity to come out with pole position.”

Meanwhile, here’s who PFF predicted to be the starting QB for each ACC team that Clemson is scheduled to play during the 2026 regular season (some are more obvious than others:

North Carolina: Billy Edwards Jr.

Cal: Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

Miami: Darian Mensah

Virginia Tech: Ethan Grunkemeyer

Florida State: Ashton Daniels

Syracuse: Steve Angeli

Georgia Tech: Alberto Mendoza

Duke: Walker Eget