When Brandon Wimbush enrolled in school this summer, he became the latest blue-chip quarterback to join the Notre Dame football program with the burden of great expectations. The New Jersey state player of the year, Wimbush would be wise to forget about the prep accolades, instead focusing his efforts on learning the playbook, with the third-string quarterback closer to the field than you’d ideally want.
Blessed with elite speed and a powerful throwing arm, Wimbush has all the tools you’d ask for in a dual-threat quarterback prospect. But Wimbush’s on-field education, with offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Sanford serving as his professor, is only just starting.