New Miami and former Houston quarterback D’Eriq King was one of the most coveted transfer quarterbacks in the portal this offseason. He will be immediately eligible for the Hurricanes in 2020 and is expected to have a big impact.

King is tasked with turning around a Hurricanes offense that struggled mightily in 2019. As a transfer, could he not only make a big impact, but be poised to make a historic one such as the one that Joe Burrow made at LSU.

The likely No. 1 overall pick in next week’s NFL Draft, Burrow was coming off a pretty good 2018 season in Baton Rouge, and obviously sent shock waves through the college football world in 2019, leading LSU to a perfect 15-0 season that was capped off with a National Championship.

If King, who is coming off a weird season where he only played four games to preserve his redshirt, made a leap even in the same vicinity as Burrow, it would be considered a massive success for Miami and rising second-year head coach Manny Diaz. His new offensive coordinator -- Rhett Lashlee -- thinks King can make some serious noise.

"That was on a Monday night during the national championship when he announced it," Lashlee said of King’s transfer to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports. "I think that game probably let him know, 'Man, I want to play on this kind of stage.' ... He would have fit at a lot of places, and fortunately, he came here first. I just showed him offensively what we can do. That's what really made him feel good about there being some good players here. All they need is a quarterback."

Lashlee appeared on The Joe Rose Show on 560 The Joe on Wednesday morning and shared why King wanted to transfer from Houston to Miami.

“He is one of the best quarterbacks in the country, statistically, the last couple years and I think watching that [National Championship] game gave him the fire that he wants to give it a shot to play on that kind of stage,” Lashlee said, via Inside the U.

During that official visit, Lashlee sold the opportunity to play in a system that would highlight King’s skill set. Lashlee runs a similar style of offense that Kendal Briles installed at Houston in 2018. In 11 games, King passes for 2,982 yards with 36 touchdowns while rushing for 674 yards and 14 touchdowns. The last two seasons, Houston fell to SMU—and King saw first hand how effective the Lashlee attack could be. In 2018, SMU won 45-31 and in 2019 the Mustangs beat the Cougars 34-31.

“We played against him at SMU,” Lashlee said. “We were fortunate to win those games and we played well offensively, but man is he electric.”