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The standard when it comes to best single seasons by a Gophers quarterback over the past 25 years belongs to Tanner Morgan, who in 2019 passed for 30 touchdowns vs. seven interceptions, completed 66% of his throws and averaged 250.2 yards per game.
Blessed with future NFL wideouts Rashod Bateman and Tyler Johnson, Morgan led Minnesota to an 11-2 record and final ranking of No. 10 in both the Associated Press and AFCA coaches polls. His rating of 178.7 ranked fourth nationally, behind fellows of whom you might have heard: Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields.
Five years later, after Morgan’s productivity dipped in his final three seasons and after Athan Kaliakmanis struggled last year, the Gophers have a difference-maker at quarterback. He’s Max Brosmer, a graduate transfer from New Hampshire who’s showing just why Gophers coach P.J. Fleck believed he was the right fit for a team aching for productivity and leadership under center.
Enjoy him while you can because he has, at most, six games left in his Gophers career.
Saturday night, Brosmer calmly led a fourth-quarter comeback, driving the Gophers 61 yards in the final 2 minutes, 20 seconds and throwing the winning 4-yard touchdown pass to Darius Taylor with 27 seconds left in a 21-17 victory over UCLA at Rose Bowl Stadium.
If it looked familiar, it should have. Last week, Brosmer led the Gophers to two fourth-quarter touchdowns — himself scoring on a 5-yard option keeper and a 1-yard tush-push sneak in the final minute — in a 24-17 upset of then-No. 11 USC.
“We got in our two-minute set, where I think he’s really comfortable,” Fleck said of Brosmer.
He’s been that way for the past three weeks. Starting with Minnesota’s 27-24 loss at Michigan in which Brosmer led three fourth-quarter touchdown drives, Brosmer has completed 25 of 35 fourth-quarter passes for 251 yards and three TDs. He also has two TD runs and has led six TD drives in those fourth quarters.
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Go Gophers!!
The standard when it comes to best single seasons by a Gophers quarterback over the past 25 years belongs to Tanner Morgan, who in 2019 passed for 30 touchdowns vs. seven interceptions, completed 66% of his throws and averaged 250.2 yards per game.
Blessed with future NFL wideouts Rashod Bateman and Tyler Johnson, Morgan led Minnesota to an 11-2 record and final ranking of No. 10 in both the Associated Press and AFCA coaches polls. His rating of 178.7 ranked fourth nationally, behind fellows of whom you might have heard: Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields.
Five years later, after Morgan’s productivity dipped in his final three seasons and after Athan Kaliakmanis struggled last year, the Gophers have a difference-maker at quarterback. He’s Max Brosmer, a graduate transfer from New Hampshire who’s showing just why Gophers coach P.J. Fleck believed he was the right fit for a team aching for productivity and leadership under center.
Enjoy him while you can because he has, at most, six games left in his Gophers career.
Saturday night, Brosmer calmly led a fourth-quarter comeback, driving the Gophers 61 yards in the final 2 minutes, 20 seconds and throwing the winning 4-yard touchdown pass to Darius Taylor with 27 seconds left in a 21-17 victory over UCLA at Rose Bowl Stadium.
If it looked familiar, it should have. Last week, Brosmer led the Gophers to two fourth-quarter touchdowns — himself scoring on a 5-yard option keeper and a 1-yard tush-push sneak in the final minute — in a 24-17 upset of then-No. 11 USC.
“We got in our two-minute set, where I think he’s really comfortable,” Fleck said of Brosmer.
He’s been that way for the past three weeks. Starting with Minnesota’s 27-24 loss at Michigan in which Brosmer led three fourth-quarter touchdown drives, Brosmer has completed 25 of 35 fourth-quarter passes for 251 yards and three TDs. He also has two TD runs and has led six TD drives in those fourth quarters.
Max Brosmer, Gophers quarterback and difference-maker
Max Brosmer is showing a knack for making winning plays in high-stakes moments.
www.startribune.com
Go Gophers!!
