2015 Season Countdown: #91 John O'Korn

Houston transfer quarterback John O'Korn (image via Nunes Magician)

Name: John O'Korn
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 220 lbs.
High school/college: Fort Lauderdale (FL) St. Thomas Aquinas, University of Houston
Position: Quarterback
Class: Redshirt sophomore
Jersey number: N/A
Last year: O'Korn played for Houston. He completed 90/173 passes (52%) for 951 yards, 6 touchdowns, and 8 interceptions.

You can find a commitment post for O'Korn here (LINK). Harbaugh and O'Korn showed some immediate mutual interest after Harbaugh was hired and O'Korn, who was displaced as the Cougars' starter, decided to transfer.

As a non-graduate transfer without any kind of immediate waiver, O'Korn will have to sit out the 2015 season due to NCAA rules. Since he did not redshirt at Houston, this will count as his redshirt year and he will be eligible for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Naturally, a player guaranteed to redshirt is not particularly important to this squad except perhaps as a talented scout team player. He should compete for the starting job beyond this season.

Prediction: Redshirt

John O'Korn, Wolverine

Houston transfer quarterback John O'Korn

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Houston quarterback John O'Korn is transferring to Michigan. You already know this if you are a Michigan football blogosphere fanatic, but I didn't want to write a commitment post until things were more concrete. So here we are.

O'Korn is a 6'4", 220-pounder who attended Fort Lauderdale (FL) St. Thomas Aquinas before committing to Houston; he also had offers from Arkansas, Louisville, Mississippi State, and North Carolina, among others. Coincidentally, he played at the same school as incoming graduate transfer Jake Rudock. O'Korn started for Houston as a freshman after the starter got knocked out with concussions; O'Korn was named American Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year for his performance. He then lost his starting job in the middle of his sophomore year and is now headed to Ann Arbor.

Hit the jump for more on O'Korn and his future at Michigan.