{"id":498235,"date":"2026-01-07T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:56:12","slug":"unlv-quarterback-anthony-colandrea-commits-to-nebraska-out-of-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498235\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV quarterback Anthony Colandrea commits to Nebraska out of NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNLV<\/a><\/strong> quarterback Anthony Colandrea<\/a><\/strong> has committed to Nebraska<\/a><\/strong> out of the NCAA transfer portal<\/strong><\/a>, according to On3\u2019s Pete Nakos<\/strong>. He spent one year with the Rebels, having a breakout campaign.<\/p>\n

Colandrea transferred to UNLV to join Dan Mullen<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s offense after spending two years at Virginia<\/a><\/strong>. He had mixed results with the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

In two years with Virginia, Anthony Colandrea threw for 4,083 yards and 26 touchdowns. He threw 20 interceptions, though, which was a bit of an issue for the Cavaliers. He sought a fresh start elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He landed with UNLV and first-year Rebels coach Dan Mullen, who is known as an offensive guru of sorts. Mullen has produced a ton of excellent college quarterbacks over the year, from Alex Smith<\/a><\/strong>, to Tim Tebow<\/a><\/strong>, to Dak Prescott<\/a><\/strong>, to Kyle Trask<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Anthony Colandrea immediately fell into a rhythm at UNLV. He had a career-best 65.9% completion percentage, throwing for 3,459 yards and 23 touchdowns in 14 games. He threw nine interceptions, but this time the touchdown-to-interception ratio was much more favorable.<\/p>\n

Now, Anthony Colandrea will head into a quarterback room needing some new life. Former star recruit and Nebraska starter Dylan Raiola<\/a><\/strong> has opted to transfer out.<\/p>\n

Can Anthony Colandrea replace Dylan Raiola?<\/p>\n

Following a back-and-forth process in looking for a new quarterback out of the portal, Nebraska landed on Anthony Colandrea as a potential answer. He\u2019ll have big shoes to fill. Dylan Raiola entered the NCAA transfer portal after spending the last two seasons in Lincoln.<\/p>\n

Raiola was limited to just nine games due to injury as a sophomore. He finished 2025 with 2,000 yards, 18 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 72.4% completion percentage. In his career, Raiola has 4,819 yards, 31 touchdowns, 17 interceptions and a 69.1% completion percentage.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Class of 2024, Raiola was a five-star recruit out of Buford (Ga.) High, according to the Rivals Industry Ranking<\/strong><\/a>. He was the No. 2 overall prospect in the state, the No. 3 quarterback in the class and the No. 21 overall prospect in the class. He chose Nebraska over Georgia after flipping his commitment.<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Nick Kosko also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNLV quarterback Anthony Colandrea has committed to Nebraska out of the NCAA transfer portal, according to On3\u2019s Pete…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[215184,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-498235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-anthony-colandrea-23-lakewood","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115852278628595165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}