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Gophers spring football practices in 2023 provided foreshadowing at quarterback.
Athan Kaliakmanis struggled to adjust to the rigors of the all-consuming position to start that year, and it was a precursor to his inconsistent play that fall and ultimately his transfer to Rutgers.
Fast forward two years, and redshirt freshman quarterback Drake Lindsey enters into a similar heir apparent spot as Minnesota began spring ball on Thursday. Max Brosmer, last year’s starting QB, had advice for his likely successor.
“Understanding you won’t be perfect every single day is really important, especially at quarterback because it feels like everything falls on you, and a lot of times it does,” Brosmer said Wednesday after the U’s Pro Day. “You have to be the face of the program and the face of the offense. You are going to mess up. You are not going to be perfect, and taking little things that you can work on and apply them to each practice and stacking days is really important, especially for a young buck, too.”
Head coach P.J. Fleck is putting a different kind of pressure on Lindsey: it’s being cast as a position battle with new Georgia Tech transfer Zach Pyron and, to a lesser extent, Dylan Wittke, a Virginia Tech transfer a year ago.
“We are replacing an NFL player,” Fleck said of Brosmer. “We’ve got a lot of guys that are going to compete to do that, to win that job. That is going to be really interesting to watch those quarterbacks go after it.”
Fleck said in spring practices reps will divvied up between QBs in different groups, not necessarily with first-, second- and third-string designations.
“This isn’t a progression and an ease into your reps,” Fleck said. “Whoever takes advantage of (their) reps and does well in those reps will get more reps. … The season is only a few months away;…
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Publish date : 2025-03-20 23:11:00
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