When determining if a non-native Minnesota athlete can be claimed as “one of us,” there is a sliding scale with years of service on one axis and accomplishments on the other.
Max Brosmer played only one season with the Gophers football program, but it was a very good one. He completed 66.5% of his passes for P.J. Fleck in 2024 and was instrumental in guiding Minnesota to a respectable 8-5 season.
Brosmer was definitely in the club after that one year. And then the Vikings gave him almost a quarter of a million dollars as an undrafted free agent, a sum that told us Brosmer was more than just a training camp body.
He has impressed the Vikings, enough so that Brosmer was given the entire second half of Saturday’s preseason loss to the Patriots. He threw for 156 yards (and had another nice gain wiped out by a motion penalty that caused head coach Kevin O’Connell to drop an expletive while mic’d up on the broadcast).
There is a real chance that Brosmer will make the 53-man roster, as the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Andrew Krammer projected and as Patrick Reusse and I talked about on Monday’s Daily Delivery podcast.
That would delight Minnesota fans and give O’Connell another young QB to bring along in tandem with J.J. McCarthy.
But KOC would also have to beware of what he is getting into with Minnesota fans. Some of them might be screaming for Brosmer at the first misplay from McCarthy.
Don’t believe me? Here is comment No. 1 on Emily Leiker’s feature on Brosmer over the weekend: “A true class act, leader and someone you would want representing your organization. We are all rooting for you Max! Oh and by the way…Brosmer > Howell and Rypien.”
