Turnover-Free Through Four Games, Davis Warren Anchor's Stanford New Era
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Stanford football has improved to 2-2 to start the 2026 season after beating Georgia Tech at home over the weekend, getting back into the win column for the first time since Week 0.
Davis Warren played his best game since joining the program, throwing for 396 yards and three touchdowns. Even though the game outcomes have been mixed, he has been the perfect quarterback to lead the Cardinal this season.
Warren has yet to commit a turnover this season.
In recent years, the program has had turnover-prone quarterbacks who played more of a direct role in the result of the game. But things are different with Warren, who has shown his quick grasp of Tavita Pritchard's scheme.
In his debut game for Stanford against Hawai'i, he completed nearly 65% of his passes (22-for-34) for 310 yards and a touchdown in the 37-27 win. Warren struggled a little bit in the 45-6 loss to Miami the following week, completing only 51.2% of his passes (21-for-41), but still threw for over 200 yards without any turnovers.
Warren bounced back in Stanford's 35-7 loss to Duke, completing 56.3% of his passes (18-for-32) for 151 yards and a touchdown despite being under pressure all game and taking four sacks.
A seasoned veteran in college football, Warren joined Stanford after spending five seasons at Michigan, where he was the primary starter in 2024.
A backup on the Michigan team that won the 2023 national championship, he knows what it takes for a team to be successful and has experience in high-leverage moments. For a rebuilding Stanford program in the first season of a new era, those traits and his leadership skills are essential.
Warren redshirted his first season at Michigan before spending the following two seasons as the backup to J.J. McCarthy. Warren took over under center after McCarthy left for the NFL and started nine games during that 2024 season, throwing seven touchdowns and nine interceptions for 1,199 yards. His win-loss record was 6-3.
While playing high school football in California, Warren hit a roadblock when he battled leukemia as a junior. Fighting hard and beating the disease after five months of therapy in Los Angeles, he played in four games as a junior and threw for 607 yards with six touchdowns and only one interception.
He transferred and was supposed to finish his high school career at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, but COVID-19 regulations prevented him from doing so. Warren then enrolled at Michigan as a preferred walk-on.
Stanford football has a lot of tough games left on its schedule this season, including matchups against teams such as Wake Forest, Notre Dame, NC State, Louisville, Virginia Tech, Cal and SMU. But if Warren can continue to protect the ball and play well in those high-pressure moments, the Cardinal could find themselves having a true foundation by the end of the year.
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