Big Ten QB Power Rankings: Post-spring tiers for every B1G QB room (Very worrisome: Minnesota (Drake Lindsey))

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Per Harvey:

Very worrisome​

Maryland (Justyn Martin, Malik Washington)

No matter which route Maryland goes, the Terps will start an inexperienced option under center. Most of Martin’s experience comes from last year’s UCLA game vs. Penn State, where he played well but does not have much other time on the field in his 3-year career. Meanwhile, Washington might have the highest ceiling, but starting a true freshman with the other concerns for the Terps does not seem wise.

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Minnesota (Drake Lindsey)

By most accounts, Lindsey is the guy to take over for one-and-done QB Max Brosmer with the Gophers. Unfortunately, Brosmer still saw the majority of snaps in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl win, so Lindsey ended his redshirt season with 5 attempted passes and 1 carry. He might be the perfect fit for PJ Fleck. But that kind of inexperience in the Big Ten is sometimes a major issue for programs.

Northwestern (Preston Stone)

After a breakout season for SMU in 2023, Stone was bypassed by dual-threat Kevin Jennings in 2024. At the very least, Stone has the most experience of any of the QBs in this tier, but it feels disingenuous to call him anything other than a big unknown at this juncture.

Purdue (Malachi Singleton)

By most accounts, Singleton is in line to get the starting job with the Boilermakers. The former 4-star recruit from the 2023 recruiting class appeared in 5 games for Arkansas last season, though none of his action was particularly extensive. It’s hard to slot Singleton or Purdue’s situation anywhere else at this juncture with a massive overhaul for Barry Odom.

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Big Ten QB Power Rankings: Post-spring tiers for every B1G QB room

It's time to power rank the Big Ten quarterback rooms into tiers as we hit the summer and move toward the 2025 preseason.
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MN, PU, MD: very worrisome; Reasoning unproven starter with minimal attempts.

OSU: really good; reasoning, well they haven't played at all but it'll probably be fine

Underwood has also taken zero college snaps and was real meh in their spring game. 11/25 for 99 yards and a pick plus 3 sacks outside of a double reverse flea flicker TD pass to end the game on a play he probably would've gotten drilled on in real action.

just be consistent if you're going to try claim you're doing any analysis.
 

Wasn't the GH Buckeye expert throwing the idea of Kienholz transferring to Minnesota because he was buried on the depth chart? Now he's good enough to start for OSU and a better option than Lindsey. I'm trying to make this make sense.
 

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Wasn't the GH Buckeye expert throwing the idea of Kienholz transferring to Minnesota because he was buried on the depth chart? Now he's good enough to start for OSU and a better option than Lindsey. I'm trying to make this make sense.
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Reality is that any QB will look better at OSU with their o-line and receivers.
 



Way to go out on a limb. All of these rankings/projections are the same. If the QB is a five or high four star or a transfer to a helmet school he will be good. If the QB is a three star or transfer to a non helmet school lookout. I get it is difficult to project how a player is going to pan out but in the new NIL landscape you are going to have half the teams having different QBs every year. I guess I'd be more open to someone doing some research and taking their best guess on how a QB will do and being wrong over the I don't know because these eight or nine guys are freshman or transfers to schools not named Ohio State.
 

GopherGuy82 said:
Way to go out on a limb. All of these rankings/projections are the same. If the QB is a five or high four star or a transfer to a helmet school he will be good. If the QB is a three star or transfer to a non helmet school lookout. I get it is difficult to project how a player is going to pan out but in the new NIL landscape you are going to have half the teams having different QBs every year. I guess I'd be more open to someone doing some research and taking their best guess on how a QB will do and being wrong over the I don't know because these eight or nine guys are freshman or transfers to schools not named Ohio State.
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I think the real reality is that unless you are a true fan of a school, it's damn near impossible to glean anything about the roster next year, regardless of how much casual perusing on the internet that you do.

People on this board became aware of Lindsey after he committed in place of the Georgia guy, they followed him, etc. There's probably a dozen or so posters on here that are far better versed to talk about our QB situation than any national sports writer. And I think that applies to most teams.
 




The writers point on Lindsay not getting much playing time against VaTech is valid, but that was a glorified high school team on the field when we played them, so if he had played the writer would have dismissed it.
 


BTChamp said:
That's pretty bleak. Or is it dire?
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If you mash up “dire” and “bleak”, you kinda end up with “Drake”. I mean, his name is a definition for a male duck. In other words, a . . . sitting . . . duck . . . in the pocket.

We will be lucky to win a game. Mr. Harvey has it right.

Good day!?!?!
 

GopherTheJugular said:
I think the real reality is that unless you are a true fan of a school, it's damn near impossible to glean anything about the roster next year, regardless of how much casual perusing on the internet that you do.

People on this board became aware of Lindsey after he committed in place of the Georgia guy, they followed him, etc. There's probably a dozen or so posters on here that are far better versed to talk about our QB situation than any national sports writer. And I think that applies to most teams.
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You are not wrong. I'm just looking at it from the angle of if it is your job or side hustle and you possibly expect to get paid for your content make the effort. Knowing half of the QBs are going to be unknowns every year and dropping them in an unknown bucket is like doing half of your job. I would respect people giving the opinion regardless of being right or wrong versus kind of mailing it in. I could be off base just my thoughts on it. These guys are supposed to have more insight than us guys sitting at home.
 



GopherGuy82 said:
These guys are supposed to have more insight than us guys sitting at home.
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I think this is the crux of it - they no longer do. 30 years ago we'd be relying on tidbits from Sid Hartman to get an idea of what's going on, etc.

Now we fans can discuss with each other, share info, etc. and the players can post things directly and it gets relayed on message boards all over, etc. PJ Fleck's twitter batman stuff signifies a new recruit or something, you get the idea.

I think if you want to go into sports journalism nowadays, you have to be like that Daniel House guy that was on here a while back - pick something (Gophers and Vikes) and dive DEEEEP into it and people will care about your content. But the days of "summarizing" national situations are long gone.
 



I mean it's easy to go all in by writing a safe, non-controversial assessment where you state "inexperienced qb is likely to show lack of experience." Dude's boss said your article is due and he hammed together a predictable piece of trash to meet his deadline. If Drake struggles, he called it. If Drake blows up, it's an anomaly that everyone else also missed on. Yawn.
 

Reasons for Optimism: Minnesota brought in an experienced backup that many considered to be not great, but a serviceable QB with P4 experience who could not last in our QB room. Plus, during the Spring transfer portal we actually brought in a handful of quality transfers, meaning we had the resources and the spots to bring someone in if we felt the need.

Reasons for Pessimism: We are Minnesota and being a QB hotbed we are not. However, since PJ has been here we have had fairly decent QB play with Morgan and Brosmer and with only year 0 and the year with Athan providing below average B1G QB play (there were a few Morgan years he was just average). Plus, Lindsay doesn't have a ton of experience to show us so the trust is on PJ's ability to judge his readiness. Athan leaves a poor taste in our months and for good reason, but if you look at his experience as a while there is reason for optimism.
 

Any time you're starting a freshman (even redshirt) and handing him the keys it's a roll of the dice. Also working in transfers and new starts at OL and WR.

My bigger concern is how good is Wittke and company are. We have to be prepared to pull the ripcord if need be.
 

There’s only a few experienced guys that actually performed really well in this conference. Would you rather go with the upside of an unknown or the sub 55% completion rate and 2:1 td to interception ratio that a guy like Kaliakmanis will likely produce once again?
 


Bayfield Gopher said:
Exactly!

Yet people choose to read this garbage then complain about its contents. There will be more ranking articles and the same predictable critics. Weird.
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It is filler season....

Never really understand why some people get so bent out of shape about all these lists and rankings. I mean I get it....it is frustrating when the writer is clearly uninformed and just throwing crap out there but that is just the way it is now. This time of year the best course of action is to look at all the lists maybe discuss them a little but for the most part file them away under "for entertainment purposes only" because in the end it is all just guesswork this time of year. Most of these guys know little to nothing about the teams and are just tossing out content because they need to post something so it is easy to do a tiny amount of research and make a list.
 

It does feel like we are rolling the entire program's dice a bit here.

Few other competitive programs would do this.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Just a few years ago this would be very normal.
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Yeah, crazy that the prospect of handing the reigns to a QB you recruited seems like a foreign concept but anymore it feels like the expectation is that you will have a transfer QB.

Trusting an inexperienced redshirt freshman is certainly risky but the fact that they didn't go out in desperate search for a starter in the portal tells me they believe Drake will be able to get it done.

Hopefully they are right.
 

Drake is going to be just fine. He has a great team around him. I believe the Gophers will have a great offensive line which is going to allow them to run the ball. We have great running backs and some great potential in the WR room. If Drake was a true freshman, I would be concerned. But he has had tremendous growth being around Max for a year. The guys around Drake are going to really help him transition into our #1 QB. Just my opinion. Big things are coming. Go Gophers!
 

Governor Sibley said:
It does feel like we are rolling the entire program's dice a bit here.

Few other competitive programs would do this.
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Really? Not the least bit over-the-top are ya? First off, it's just one season. If he blows it like AK did, well, last year showed what the recovery looks like. It didn't set us back to some difficult to overcome scenario.

Secondly, do you have any better ideas? Recruit portal QBs almost every offseason? Hope that recruits like Lindsey and Kollack wanna stick around on the bench until they are upper-classmen?
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Really? Not the least bit over-the-top are ya? First off, it's just one season. If he blows it like AK did, well, last year showed what the recovery looks like. It didn't set us back to some difficult to overcome scenario.

Secondly, do you have any better ideas? Recruit portal QBs almost every offseason? Hope that recruits like Lindsey and Kollack wanna stick around on the bench until they are upper-classmen?
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To your second point...that is the route a lot of teams have decided to go...Once teams get on the transfer QB carousel it is really hard to get off....we are attempting a dismount this season.... hopefully we stick the landing.....if not we will be right back on the carousel next year with what feels like the majority of programs these days.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Really? Not the least bit over-the-top are ya? First off, it's just one season. If he blows it like AK did, well, last year showed what the recovery looks like. It didn't set us back to some difficult to overcome scenario.

Secondly, do you have any better ideas? Recruit portal QBs almost every offseason? Hope that recruits like Lindsey and Kollack wanna stick around on the bench until they are upper-classmen?
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For a century, teams used the next man up method for quarterbacks. Starter graduates, person in the system gets his shot. Just because AK failed to succeed in his attempt does not mean that DL will fail to succeed. It only means we don't know and we hope for success. Will he be as good as his predecessor? It's unknown. That's the beauty of college football.
 

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