No position group has bedeviled the Minnesota Golden Gophers over the last decade quite like the signal callers under center. This fall, the team’s fate would seems to rest in the inexperienced hands of redshirt freshman Tanner Morgan. Should he turn out to be competent, it will have been a long and strange road, riddled with the unfulfilled potential of countless Gopher quarterbacks.
Today we turn the spotlight to: Philip Nelson.
As a Prospect
247 Sports Composite Rating: .8624
Scholarship Offers: None
As a quarterback at Mankato West High School, Nelson finished his high school career 490-of-801 for 7,561 career passing yards with 94 touchdown passes.