The 2024 college football season saw a number of former Michigan State signal-callers at the helm of other teams. In total, four other programs had a former Spartan QB playing for at least part of the season. Payton Thorne just finished his second year at Auburn, and his final year of college eligibility. After the 2023 season, three more quarterbacks departed from East Lansing. Noah Kim transferred to Coastal Carolina, Katin Houser went to East Carolina, and Sam Leavitt took his talents to Arizona State.
In this article we are going to compare the 2024 seasons of each of these players to the season that new MSU QB Aidan Chiles had.