Max Brosmer: QB · Minnesota · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Max Brosmer
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Arrived at Minnesota from New Hampshire. All-Big Ten in 2024 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 320 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Maryland, Week 9, 2024.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
63.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.0% conversion-per-dropback — 46.4% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
11 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (91.7%). 7 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (28.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Minnesota | 268 | 403 | 66.5% | 2,829 | 7.0 | 18 | 6 | 137.2 | 52 |
| Career | 268 | 403 | 66.5% | 2,829 | 7.0 | 18 | 6 | 137.2 | 52 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Minnesota | 71 | −37 | −0.5 | 5 | 28 |
| Career | 71 | −37 | −0.5 | 5 | 28 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-19vs North Carolina | 13/21 | 166 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | 47.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-0vs Rhode Island | 24/30 | 271 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 54.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 27-0vs Nevada | 16/26 | 191 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 39.2 | |
| Wk 4 | L 14-31vs Iowa | 22/37 | 209 | 2 | 2 | 5.6 | 49.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-27@ No. 12 Michigan | 27/40 | 258 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 64.3 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-17vs No. 11 USC | 15/19 | 169 | 0 | 0 | 8.9 | 89.3 | |
| Wk 7 | W 21-17@ UCLA | 26/37 | 193 | 2 | 0 | 5.2 | 65.4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 48-23vs Maryland | 26/33 | 320 | 4 | 0 | 9.7 | 97.6 | Season-high 320 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 25-17@ No. 24 Illinois | 22/37 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 55.5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 19-26@ Rutgers | 27/45 | 262 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 44.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 25-26vs No. 4 Penn State | 15/23 | 175 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 60.7 | |
| Wk 14 | W 24-7@ Wisconsin | 17/26 | 191 | 2 | 0 | 7.3 | 79.4 | |
 Bowl | W 24-10vs Virginia Tech | 18/29 | 211 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 75.9 | |
| Total | 268/403 | 2829 | 18 | 6 | 7.0 | — |
Week 6 · 2024
W 24-17
vs USC
169 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 89.3 · 14 rush yds (7 car) · 3 TD
A close one, won by 7 at home.
With D. Taylor — 144 rush yds (25 car) · 5 rec · 56 yds · M. Crawford — 35.7 yards per punt · 3 punts · 3 inside the 20
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 392 passing plays (264 completions) against the box score's 403 attempts (268 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.46100 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.8%104 of 205 QBsSacked on 5.8% of dropbacks (104 of 205) — and still 100 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 66.5% completion on 403 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 24.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 32 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 214 | 1.4 | 8.0 | 0.6 |
| Road5g | 223 | 1.4 | 6.1 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 208 | 1.1 | 7.2 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 232 | 1.8 | 7.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
P.J. Fleck
Pass share
50.6%
409 pass / 399 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
403 pass attempts and 71 carries in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #56 at the position.
How it ended
One season at Minnesota, 2,829 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA
Named All-American (2023)
named by 1 selector
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2024)
Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week
