Miami’s Brazilian QB with prototype size and a deep-development track
João Arede is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound redshirt junior quarterback at Miami (FL), but in the 2024 season he did not see game action and worked on the practice squad, so his current value is more about upside than box-score production[1][4]. His differentiators are NFL-style frame, a long developmental path from São Paulo to IMG Academy and then Miami, and the kind of background that suggests toughness and patience; the tradeoff is that there’s no public game log or recent stat line to lean on, so he looks more like a project QB than an immediate fit for teams needing instant production[1][5][8].
