Noah Grubbs

Physical Profile

Listed 6-4 and now roughly 205-209 pounds after entering the cycle in the 190-195 range — a 15-plus pound gain that speaks well of his frame's willingness to carry weight without costing him mobility. The height gives him natural throwing lanes over interior rush and the sightlines to work the middle of the field, which is where much of his production lives. Build is still projectable rather than filled out; he needs another offseason of mass in the lower half and trunk to hold up to Power Four pass-rush contact and to stop losing velocity when he can't fully set his feet. Athletic enough to escape the pocket and pick up situational yardage — 16 career rushing scores — but he is a passer who moves, not a dual-threat, and should be evaluated as such.

Play Style

A rhythm pocket passer who wins with anticipation and touch rather than arm strength alone. He is at his best working the intermediate middle off play-action, where the height lets him throw over interior traffic and the touch lets him drop it in front of the safety. Comfortable operating a high-volume passing offense — he averaged roughly 25 attempts a game as a senior and never looked overloaded by it. When protection holds he is a decisive, on-schedule quarterback with clean footwork. When it breaks down he will still try to make the play, which produces both the Hail Mary that won a state title and the interceptions that cost him composite ranking points. Uses his legs as an escape valve and a short-yardage tool, not as a designed run element.

Strengths

• Rare production volume against elite competition: 756-of-1,324 for 11,537 yards and 143 touchdowns across 53 games in Florida's largest classification, starting from his freshman year. Four full seasons of high-classification starting reps is a developmental head start almost no incoming freshman quarterback has.
• Loose, natural arm with legitimate touch — 247's Andrew Ivins specifically flagged the clean mechanics and the ability to throw with touch rather than pure velocity. He layers the ball into intermediate windows and drops deep balls in stride rather than driving everything flat.
• Proven in the biggest moments: down 27-11 in the third quarter of the 7A state championship, he threw for 333 yards and three scores and won it on a last-second Hail Mary to Barrett Schulz. That followed a 2024 runner-up finish, so the resume includes both the loss and the correction.
• Consistent year-over-year efficiency growth — 51.2% as a freshman, 58.1% as a sophomore, 58% on 400-plus attempts as a senior while the defensive quality rose. The arrow has never pointed down.

Areas to Improve

• Decision-making under duress. This is the single evaluation that separated him from the top-100 consensus: Ivins noted turnovers and mistakes climbed noticeably when opponents cranked up the pressure. Twelve interceptions on 401 senior attempts is workable at the high school level and is not at Notre Dame — the checkdown and the throwaway have to become reflexes.
• Base and lower-body mass. Velocity drops when he can't step into the throw, which is exactly the condition a college pocket imposes. Adding functional strength through the hips and trunk is what turns his off-platform attempts from hopeful into repeatable.
• Full-field progression speed. A four-year high school starter with this much talent around him can win a lot on first reads and pure arm; the college game will demand faster eye discipline through second and third options, particularly against disguised two-high coverage.

College Projection

Already ahead of the standard freshman timeline. He enrolled at Notre Dame and, per On3's Alan Trieu, 'had a really good spring' and is 'very much in the conversation for quarterback two' — battling redshirt freshman Blake Hebert and reclassified true freshman Teddy Jarrard behind starter CJ Carr, with some inside the program expecting him to win the job. Realistic 2026 outcome is QB2 or a redshirt with heavy scout-team and developmental reps; either is a fine result. The genuine opportunity is 2027-28, when Carr's eligibility clock and the roster construction open the starting job to whoever has spent two years learning the offense. Projects as a multi-year Power Four starter if the pressure decision-making cleans up — that is the whole evaluation in one sentence.

NFL Outlook

Legitimate but unresolved Day 3 to mid-round potential, and it is entirely contingent on development rather than traits. The frame, the arm looseness and the four-year production baseline are the profile NFL evaluators want in a developmental college starter; the size at 6-4 with room to add mass is a real plus. What gets him drafted is proving he can process a full-field read and protect the football when the pocket collapses — the exact trait the scouting community docked him for coming out of high school. If he wins the Notre Dame job and holds it for two-plus seasons with a clean turnover profile, he enters the Day 2 conversation. If the pressure mistakes persist against college defenses, he is a career backup. Too early to grade with confidence; the arm talent is real enough to keep the file open.

Best Fit

A pro-style, play-action-heavy passing offense built on timing and half-field reads with a reliable offensive line — which is a fair description of what he signed up for. He needs a system that lets him throw on rhythm from structure rather than one asking him to create off-script every snap, and a program patient enough to sit him behind an established starter for a year or two rather than burning him early. Notre Dame is close to an ideal landing spot: veteran quarterback ahead of him, strong offensive line development, and a passing game that rewards the intermediate touch throws he already makes well. A spread-to-run or heavy RPO scheme would waste his best skill and expose his thinnest one.