A five-star quarterback is on the move — and on this occasion it’s JT Daniels entering the transfer portal, though with the caveat he could find his way back at USC.

Of the 19 five-star quarterbacks in the 247Sports Composite to earn a five-star rating between the 2010-18 classes, Daniels is the 12th to at least explore his transfer options. Per USCFootball.com's Ryan Abraham, Daniels could return to Los Angeles for a third season depending on the results of the NCAA's upcoming ruling on allowing student-athletes a one-time transfer waiver exception.

Five-star quarterbacks are the best of the best coming out of high school at football’s most important position, but 63 percent of them have transferred (or entered the portal) from their initial school at one point or another in their career. Circumstances vary from case to case, but this five-star exodus is a reflection of the current transfer culture that surrounds quarterbacks.

Only one quarterback can start per team, and quarterbacks are moving earlier than ever in search of an opportunity to play.

“It's gotten to be very normalized, and I do think the grad transfer has further normalized this movement," said 247Sports Director of Scouting Barton Simmons. "I think today’s quarterbacks, and there’s only one spot on the field for that position, they go through the college process looking for playing time. I think there’s plenty of guys who have waited their turn, but I think this crop of quarterbacks today are much more willing to be more flexible with their long-term plans to give themselves the best opportunity.

"To me there's nothing wrong with that. Guys go to college to play."

According to a study done by Fox Sports, 46.9 percent of four- and five-star quarterbacks from 2011-14 transferred at least once in their career. Elite 11 quarterbacks, considered the top signal callers coming out of high school, transferred at a 52.6 percent rate from 2009-13.

Five-star quarterback transfers aren’t the exception. They’re the embodiment of what’s become the norm.

Take a five-star quarterback who hasn’t transferred as an example. Tua Tagovailoa helped Alabama win the 2017 national championship with a heroic second-half performance off the bench. But had he not played in that game, Tagovailoa admitted in 2018 that he would’ve transferred from Tuscaloosa following a true freshman season in which he sat behind sophomore Jalen Hurts.

“Even throughout my football season, I wasn't the starter," Tagovailoa said, per Hawaii News Now. "I wanted to leave the school. So I told myself if I didn't play in the last game, which was the national championship game, I would transfer out.

Remember, if Tagovailoa transferred he’d have to sit out a year. At that point, Tagovailoa could’ve surpassed him for the starting job with an additional season in Tuscaloosa. But that’s where we are in the current iteration of college football, a fact especially prevalent at quarterback.

The pace of these transfers is picking up, too.

Blake Barnett, Kyler Murray, Shea Patterson, Jacob Eason, Johnson and Fields were all five-star prospects in the 2014 class and beyond. All six of them transferred prior to the start of their junior season. The reasons vary. Barnett got stuck behind Hurts, Patterson left in the wake of Ole Miss’ sanctions, Murray’s situation turned toxic in College Station and Eason lost his job following an injury and the ascension of true freshman Jake Fromm. Johnson, meanwhile, got squeezed out in a quarterback room that included a senior starter (Kelly Bryant) in front of him and the nation's No. 1 prospect (Trevor Lawrence) behind him. Fields, who had no shortage of success las year in Columbus, didn't want to wait behind Jake Fromm for another year.

The results were the same — a transfer.

It’s a word more common in college football by the day, and it might become more so soon with the NCAA exploring a change to its transfer policy.

Five-stars are no exception when it comes to the quarterback exodus. They’re leading the way.