Contrary to popular belief, Trevor Lawrence isn't the only quarterback in the ACC next season capable of generating national noise. Despite Jamie Newman's transfer from Wake Forest to Georgia, the ACC is still front-loaded under center in 2020 with several players behind the Heisman frontrunner capable of star-level campaigns.

Former four-star Sam Howell's unexpected emergence as a true freshman at North Carolina gives the Tar Heels a sense of optimism ahead of Mack Brown's second season. Howell set numerous records last fall and led multiple fourth-quarter comebacks with a gunslinger mentality and leadership qualities that quickly became buzzworthy.

One of the league's new additions, Miami's D'Eriq King, hopes to bring the Hurricanes only their second Coastal Division crown since the league went to a championship game format in 2005. Miami has sorely missed a player of King's talent level at the position in recent years and Manny Diaz expects tapping the transfer portal a second time for a quarterback yields better results than the first.

The following is how 247Sports national analyst Bud Elliott ranks the league's starting quarterbacks, from top to bottom, ahead of the 2020 season with insight on a few of the most notable. For inclusion purposes, we're throwing Notre Dame's Ian Book in the mix since the Irish largely play an ACC slate: