When UNLV kicks off spring practice in a couple of months, they’ll do so without the quarterback who started 50 percent of the team’s wins in 2016.
As all of the cool football players are doing these days, Dalton Sneed announced on Twitter that he has decided to transfer from the Rebels. “Decisions in life aren’t easy, and this has been by far the toughest of my life,” the quarterback wrote, adding, “I have to do what’s best for me.”
What’s arguably best for Sneed is finding a situation where he likely wouldn’t be buried behind a trio of players heading into the spring.
A redshirt freshman, Sneed will have to sit out the 2017 season if his next destination is another FBS program. However, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Sneed is likely headed to a junior college.
Regardless, he’d then have two years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2018.pic.twitter.com/nZXnNxkivY
— 1⃣8⃣™ (@daltonsneed) December 13, 2016
The third-string quarterback to begin the season, injuries led to Sneed starting five games in the middle of the season, with the Rebels winning two of those contests. A poor performance in a loss to San Jose State prompted Sneed’s benching in favor of Kurt Palendach, who along with Johnny Stanton (starter the first four games before being injured) and Armani Rogers “appear to be ahead of [Sneed] on the depth chart,” the Sun noted.
While he completed well under 50 percent of his pass attempts (39-88), Sneed did finish fourth on the team in rushing yards with 348.
