Browning's father, Ed, played QB at Oregon State from 1987-91. Jake Browning had one of UW's most efficient games ever in Corvallis in 2015.
Jake Browning was aware, certainly, of his father’s career at Oregon State. Ed Browning, it seemed, had enjoyed Corvallis, and the enduring friendships made there, but he never offered up many details to his son about his time as the Beavers’ quarterback.
“I don’t think they were very good when he was there,” Jake Browning said Tuesday, “so he didn’t talk about it a ton.”
As a senior in 1991, Ed Browning was the Beavers’ starting quarterback for the first four games of the season before being benched by first-year coach Jerry Pettibone, who had implemented a run-heavy Wishbone offense that didn’t suit Browning’s strengths.