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Renowned QB Whisperer: CFB World Sleeping on Gophers’ Future 1st Round Pick
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The Minnesota Gopher football team will kickoff its 2025 season on Thursday at Huntington Bank Stadium against the Buffalo Bulls, marking the start of a new quarterback era in Dinkytown.
This week's opener won't be Lindsey's first time taking a college football snap. The redshirt freshman spent the 2024 season learning and developing behind one-and-done Gopher-turned-Viking, Max Brosmer . During his true freshman season, Drake got on the field in three different games.
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The 20-year-old out of Fayetteville, Arkansas looked damn good, in his limited playing time last year, completing 4-of-5 passes for 50 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions. You can't take much from that small of a sample size, but the little you can glean is pretty positive.
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Looking forward to more TD drives @Drakelindsey5 ! 🚀 #RTB #SkiUMah #Gophers https://t.co/ilJSphqbUH pic.twitter.com/yX2WsQt9rm
— Minnesota Football (@GopherFootball) December 12, 2024
Still, it's impossible to know what the Minnesota Gophers are going to get out of a redshirt freshman quarterback, unless you are in the U of M practice facilities on a weekly basis, access that nobody outside of the football program has.
CFB pundits lukewarm on MN Gopher QB, Drake Lindsey
Thus, projections and predictions involving the 2025 Gopher football team are underwhelming, at best, entering Thursday's season opener. Most national pundits have them finishing at the bottom of the big ten, mostly citing inexperience and unknown on offense, especially at QB and WR.
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Those attempting to pre-judge Big Ten quarterbacks don't even have Drake Lindsey on their radar. Well-respected college football analyst and insider, Josh Pate — who does work for On3, ESPN and Yahoo Sports — released a top 10 conference QB list, and left the Gophers' new starter off his rankings completely.
REPORT: I am socializing my Big Ten QB rankings with select people today. Will report feedback. pic.twitter.com/2nmdMIId5T
— Josh Pate (@JoshPateCFB) June 13, 2025
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Again, that's somewhat understandable, given Lindsey's never started a collegiate game. But there is one QB expert out there who has seen Drake Lindsey up close and personal. But those inside the Gopher football program are extremely high on their new QB, as are others who have worked with him.
Quincy Avery is a renowned quarterback trainer — see his Hulu documentary titled: The Quincy Avery Effect" — who owns a QB training company, QB Takeover . The list of quarterbacks who have tapped Avery for tutelage at some point during their career is impressive.
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The QB whisperer has worked with Patrick Mahomes , Deshaun Watson , Jordan Love , CJ Stroud , Jalen Hurts . Avery and his small team of QB coaches pride themselves on training football throwers of all ages, from middle school all the way to the NFL.
QB whisperer goes all in on Drake Lindsey
Well, Avery has also been working with Minnesota Gophers quarterbacks recently, including the aforementioned redshirt freshman, Drake Lindsey. His biggest takeaways on the Gophers' other No. 3?
Just like the quarterback who proceeded Lindsey, Avery is convinced that the football world is sleeping on our former high 3-Star high school prospect in a MAJOR way.
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In fact, Quincy is so high on Minnesota's redshirt freshman that he took his admiration to Twitter recently, where he proceeded to predict that Lindsey will finish the 2025 season as a top 3 quarterback in the Big Ten, before he eventually develops into a first round draft pick.
I'm willing to bet a good chunk of change that a top 3 QB in Big 10 isn't on this list right now. Drake Lindsey is so much better than anyone understands. I truly and honestly believe he's gonna be a Rd1 pick when it's all said and done. https://t.co/Rx42MDc9lC
— Quincy Avery (@QuincyAvery) August 22, 2025
I'm willing to bet a good chunk of change that a top 3 QB in Big 10 isn't on this list right now. Drake Lindsey is so much better than anyone understands. I truly and honestly believe he's gonna be a Rd1 pick when it's all said and done.
Can we trust Avery's judgement of quarterbacks? Well, if his work with some of the best quarterbacks of this generation isn't enough to convince you. Let's look at an ever more recent example that hits closer to home.
Avery already hit on Gophers QB Max Brosmer… and nobody listened
Quincy Avery has also worked extensively with former Minnesota Gophers QB1, Max Brosmer. After working with the Max, he called every NFL scout in his rolodex, trying to get them to take a flyer on the under-radar QB up in Dinkytown.
I told every scout I talked to. Didn't wanna listen to me tho 🙄 https://t.co/wW4mLVsCWa
— Quincy Avery (@QuincyAvery) August 13, 2025
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None of them took Avery's advice. As a result, the Vikings signed him as a UDFA, where he quickly made himself uncuttable during training camp. Looking forward, most have Brosmer's floor as a long-time backup in the NFL. If he develops beyond that, the sky could be the limit.
So, if you are a MN Gopher fan who fell in love with Brosmer while he was here, you'd better make some room in that football diary for Drake Lindsey… because it sounds like he is coming for your hearts on Thursday night in front of what will be a packed Huntington Bank Stadium.
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