Just a day after securing its starting quarterback, Indiana football landed another quarterback –– this time out of the high school ranks.
2025 quarterback Jacob Bell committed to Indiana on Wednesday –– the lone quarterback in its high school recruiting class. The Hoosiers’ coaching staff offered Bell, who was committed to Ball State University, on Tuesday before he de-committed from the Cardinals.
Less than 24 hours later, Bell is now a Hoosier. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound signal caller attends Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois, and earned All-State honors, completing 63% of his passes while racking up 3,223 total yards and 44 total touchdowns. He is ranked the 96th-best quarterback according to 247 Sports’ rankings.
Bell was one of the seven recruits Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti said would be on campus just a day after the Hoosiers lost to the University of Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff First Round on Dec. 20.
On Dec. 4, which was the first of two National Signing Days, Cignetti said the Hoosiers didn’t feel a “real need” to sign a quarterback in the 2025 class. He cited freshmen quarterbacks Tyler Cherry and Alberto Mendoza as two young quarterbacks in the program that they “like.”
Bell’s commitment comes just four days after redshirt sophomore quarterback Tayven Jackson entered the transfer portal. Indiana is now slated to have Fernando Mendoza, Alberto Mendoza, Cherry and Bell in its quarterback room for the 2025 season. Chandler Whitmer, who Cignetti hired Dec. 20, will coach the signal callers.
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