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Anyone who watched Max Brosmer play quarterback for the Minnesota Gophers last season knows that he is one of the best to ever lineup under center in maroon and gold. But with only one season of division one football under his belt, the former FCS New Hampshire standout entered the 2025 pre-draft process a relative unknown.
Brosmer had a good 2024 season — 66.5% CMP | 2,828 YDS | 18 TD | 6 INT — one that now sits in the top 5 most prolific passing records in Gopher football history. Of course, Minnesota — who hasn't had a QB drafted to the NFL since 1972 — isn't exactly known as a QB hotbed, especially in the modern era.
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But the closer we get to the draft, the more it appears that unfortunate 50 year streak is about to end. Since the completion of Minnesota's 2024 season, Max Brosmer has slowly been creeping up big boards across the NFL Draft world.
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A couple of weeks ago, Brosmer impressed at the East-West Shrine Bowl , which is considered the second-best All-Star bowl game for draft-eligible college football players. His impressive week came after he originally accepting an invite to the lower-tiered Hula Bowl. Now, he has parlayed those opportunities into his biggest one yet
Max Brosmer receives invite to 2025 NFL Scouting Combine
On Monday, local insider Darren Wolfson (KSTP) is reporting that Max Brosmer has received an invite to the NFL Scouting Combine from February 27 to March 2 in Indianapolis .
Great to hear that former #Gophers QB Max Brosmer received an invite to the Combine later this month. He'll also have a chance to impress #NFL scouts at MN Pro Day on March 19th. pic.twitter.com/l4G3PFBSpH
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) February 10, 2025
What will scouts and evaluators learn about Max Brosmer in a few weeks? Off the field, they will interview one of the better leaders and smarter football players in Indianapolis during that week.
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Remember, this is a kid who — in just a matter of weeks/months — convinced about one hundred 18-25 year old kids that falling in line with his leadership would benefit every player on the roster. But what's even more impressive is how Brosmer somehow got his incredibly stubborn (and overly safe by nature) head coach to hand him full control of the Minnesota Gophers offense.
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By the midway point of 2024, the former FCS superstar had earned so much trust from the Golden Gophers coaching staff that he had full autonomy at the line of scrimmage to change plays and adjust protections. For context, that is something Fleck has never allowed a quarterback to do during his eight seasons in Dinkytown.
Minnesota Gophers QB will impress on the field too
On the field, I expect Max Brosmer to test off the charts. Not only can he go through reads and make every throw, but the right-hander's talent combined with his unmatched preparation is almost guaranteed to put the Golden Gopher QB at the top of all QBs at the combine.
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At the East-West Shrine Bowl, Brosmer posted what the bowl game's director of football operations Eric Galko called "highly impressive" metrics including release time (0.40 seconds), throw velocity (50 MPH) and spin rate (600+ RPM).
#Minnesota 's Max Brosmer hit a highly impressive trio of QB metrics per @WilsonFootball during our throwing session.
He had a release of 0.40 seconds on average (NFL Avg: 0.45), had an average velocity of 50 MPH (NFL avg: 44.8), and average 600+ RPM (NFL Avg: 592) per throw.… pic.twitter.com/mnV8KFUh0Q— Eric Galko (@EricGalko) February 5, 2025
As someone who has covered and followed Brosmer very closely since he committed to the Minnesota Gophers over one year ago, I'll be surprised if he doesn't impress at least one team enough to draft him in late April. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if he could creep into day two (rounds 3 and 4).
If Max Brosmer is selected in the 2025 NFL Draft, as mentioned previously, he will be the first Golden Gophers QB drafted to the NFL since 1972, when Craig Curry was taken in the 8th round (No. 207 overall) by the Miami Dolphins .
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Through the course of University of Minnesota history , which goes back to pre-1900, there have been only three Gophers drafted to play QB in the NFL, a draft tradition that goes back to 1936. The other two were Bobby Cox (1957 – 4th round – LA Rams) and John Hankinson (1965 – 8th round – Vikings).
