The Birmingham Stallions are back on the United Football League quarterback carousel.

The Stallions aren’t changing quarterbacks this time: Case Cookus will become the third Birmingham QB to start two games in 2025 when the Stallions face the San Antonio Brahmas at 3 p.m. CDT Sunday at Protective Stadium to close Week 6 of the UFL season.

But the Brahmas will have a new quarterback. Kevin Hogan hasn’t thrown a pass this season, but San Antonio’s offense has been dormant. Halfway through the campaign, the Brahmas have the fewest yards, fewest passing yards and fewest points in the league.

A fifth-round selection from Stanford in the 2016 NFL Draft, Hogan spent six seasons in the NFL, appeared on the rosters of six teams and played in nine games, with one start.

New quarterbacks are old hat for the Birmingham defense.

Two weeks ago, Jalan McClendon introduced himself with the Houston Roughnecks trailing 11-0, threw for 236 yards and ran for one touchdown in his first action of the season and made it respectable in the Stallions’ 23-16 victory.

Last week, the UFL’s only winless team tried a new quarterback. In his first action of 2025, Dresser Winn threw for 235 yards and one touchdown and helped the Memphis Showboats pull out a 24-20 overtime upset of Birmingham.

In their previous three seasons, the Stallions have never had more than two losses and lost just five in total across three championship campaigns. But the setback against the Showboats left Birmingham at 3-2 for 2025.

Last year, the Stallions stopped San Antonio 25-0 in the UFL Championship Game. But the Brahmas reached the halfway mark of the 2025 season with a 1-4 record.

Birmingham did make changes at quarterback this week, with Matt Corral going on injured reserve. After starting the third and fourth games, Corral sustained a hip injury late in the victory over the Roughnecks on April 19. Alex McGough started the first two games before being sidelined by a shoulder injury.

With Andrew Peasley in line to back up Cookus again on Sunday, the Stallions have an old favorite to serve as their emergency, third quarterback against San Antonio – J’Mar Smith, the original starting QB for Birmingham’s USFL championship teams in 2022 and 2023.

During an appearance on WJOX-FM in Birmingham, Holtz said Peasley would make his debut at some point in Sunday’s game.

The Brahmas-Stallions game will be televised by FOX.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.