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2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: C John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota,...Schmitz has been named a preseason All-American by numerous outlets entering the season. He was named All-Big Ten Second Team last season by the coaches and All-Big Ten Third Team by the media. The four-time Academic All-Big Ten standout has played in 44 career games and has made 23 starts at center for the Gophers. - Minnesota Football

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C John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota
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07/29/22 - Mohamed Ibrahim, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 5-08, 203 (DS#22 RB) + More +

Mo Ibrahim and Trey Potts weren't cloaked in bubble wrap during spring practices in March, but the affect was the same as the Gophers' top running back duo watched as teammates went through contact drills and scrimmages. That will change on Monday. After serious injuries ended their 2021 seasons by early October, Ibrahim and Potts have been cleared for full contact and will have a month to prepare for the season opener against Jerry Kill-coached New Mexico State on Sept. 1 at Huntington Bank Stadium.

Ibrahim ruptured his Achilles tendon in the season opener against Ohio State, then Potts suffered an undisclosed injury in the win over Purdue a month later. Potts' ailment was severe enough to cause a six-night hospital stay in Indiana. At Big Ten Media Days on Tuesday, head coach P.J. Fleck said Ibrahim was "full strength" and "ready to roll." Fleck said the program will try to be smart with Ibrahim during preseason camp, giving him the scrimmage-type hits he needs to reacquaint himself with the physical rushing style that has brought the 2020 Big Ten running back of the year so much success. "So, when he gets to the game, that last step (live contact) isn't a worry," Fleck said. - Star Tribune

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RB Mohamed Ibrahim, Minnesota
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07/25/22 - John Michael Schmitz, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 6-4, 301 (DS#3 C) + More +

2022 PRESEASON RIMINGTON TROPHY WATCHLIST: John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota,...Announced on Dec. 13, 2021, that he was returning to Minnesota for the 2022 season...has played in 44 career games and made 23 starts at center...Started all 13 games at center and blocked for an offense that totaled 4,681 yards and averaged 25.46 points per game in 2021. - Minnesota Football

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C John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota
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07/25/22 - Brevyn Spann-Ford, rSr/2024, Minnesota, 6-7, 260 (DS#13 TE) + More +

2022 PRESEASON JOHN MACKEY AWARD WATCH LIST: BREVYN SPANN-FORD, MINNESOTA,...Spann-Ford started three of 13 games in 2021...caught 23 passes for 296 yards and one touchdown...Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2020, 2019). - Minnesota Football

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TE Brevyn Spann-Ford, Minnesota
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07/25/22 - Sean Tyler, rSr/2024, Minnesota, 5-08, 182 (DS#53 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Sean Tyler (Jr.), Western Michigan,...Western Michigan running back Sean Tyler, also recently named to the Maxell Award Watch List for the nation's top player, led the Broncos' rushing attack last year, amassing a career-high 1,150 yards on 178 carries and nine touchdowns last season. He also caught career-best 14 passes for 114 yards and two touchdowns. The Richton Park, Ill., native was also WMU's top returner on the season, averaging 29.27 yards per return and two touchdowns. For his efforts he was named Second Team All- MAC. - Western Michigan Football

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RB Sean Tyler, Minnesota
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07/24/22 - Mohamed Ibrahim, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 5-08, 203 (DS#22 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Mohamed Ibrahim (Sr.), Minnesota,...Running back Mohamed Ibrahim (5-10, 210) redshirted his true freshman season, then became the Golden Gophers' starting running back as a redshirt freshman and rushed 202 times for 1,160 yards, the second most by a freshman in history behind Darrell Thompson, and nine touchdowns. Ibrahim was named the MVP of the 2018 Quick Lane Bowl after rushing for 224 yards and two touchdowns against Georgia Tech. As a redshirt sophomore he gained 604 yards and scored seven touchdowns on 114 carries. He entered his redshirt junior season on the watchlist for the Doak Walker Award.

He finished the season with 1,076 yards and 15 touchdowns on 201 carries in seven games and was named first team All-Big Ten and the Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year as well as a third team All-American by the Associated Press. Ibrahim was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland. As a senior, he rushed for 1,313 yards and 16 touchdowns on 206 attempts. He committed to play college football at Minnesota over offers from Kentucky, Iowa, Temple, and Towson. - Mohamed Ibrahim Wikipedia page

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RB Mohamed Ibrahim, Minnesota
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07/21/22 - Mohamed Ibrahim, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 5-08, 203 (DS#22 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: Mohamed Ibrahim, Minnesota,... Running back Mohamed Ibrahim (5-10, 210) ranks eighth on Minnesota's career rushing list with 3,003 yards despite playing in only 29 games...ranks tied for fourth in school history with 33 rushing touchdowns...his 5.49 yards per carry average ranks eighth all-time in school history (minimum 200 carries) while his 547 carries ranks tenth...ranks tied for first in school history with three career 200-yard rushing games...ranks first in school history with nine straight 100-yard rushing games (1/1/20 - 9/2/21). - Minnesota Football

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RB Mohamed Ibrahim, Minnesota
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07/20/22 - Sean Tyler, rSr/2024, Minnesota, 5-08, 182 (DS#53 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: Sean Tyler, Western Michigan,...Western Michigan running back Sean Tyler Tyler is coming off a breakout sophomore season, in which he ran for 1,150 yards and nine touchdowns on 178 carries, while catching 14 passes for 114 yards and two more scores and returning two kickoffs for touchdowns. In WMU's Quick Lane Bowl win over Nevada, the 5-foot-8, 185-pound running back earned MVP honors by rushing for 146 yards on 14 carries and returning a kickoff 100 yards for a score. A three-star recruit out of Olympia Fields, Ill., established himself as WMU's No. 2 ball carrier as a freshman behind MAC Player of the Year LeVante Bellamy, collecting 390 yards and five touchdowns on 68 carries. Injuries and the COVID-19 pandemic limited Tyler's sophomore season to just three games, in which he tallied 262 yards and two touchdowns on 36 totes. - Western Michigan Football

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RB Sean Tyler, Minnesota
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07/18/22 - John Michael Schmitz, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 6-4, 301 (DS#3 C) + More +

2022 WALTER CAMP PRESEASON SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: OL John Michael Schmitz (Minnesota),... Announced on Dec. 13, 2021, that he was returning to Minnesota for the 2022 season. Played in 44 career games and made 23 starts at center. In 2021, started all 13 games at center and blocked for an offense that totaled 4,681 yards and averaged 25.46 points per game. All-Big Ten Second Team (2021, coaches), All-Big Ten Third Team (2021, media), Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018),All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (2020), RTB Trust Award (2019). - Minnesota Football

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C John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota
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07/01/22 - Tanner Morgan, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 6-0, 204 (DS#21 QB) + More +

Gophers football players launched their own name image and likeness club on Wednesday. The Twin Cities NIL Club will be open to fans, where a $199 membership create an "access pass" for various interactions with players and to view player-created content. Roughly 1,000 memberships will go on sale in July, and revenue will be shared equally among every participating Gophers team member, they said in a letter circulated on social media.

All NCAA athletes have had a calendar year to be compensated by organizations in exchange for work or services, and Minnesota's football team is believed to be the first Gophers team to start its own NIL club. "We have always known that we have some of the best fans in the nation," sixth-year quarterback Tanner Morgan said in a Twitter post. "New we get to show the fans that we care." Gophers players are working with Yoke Gaming, a third-party platform that handles infrastructure for these nascent clubs. Players from Michigan State and Notre Dame represent two existing groups to have partnered with Yoke, a web site that started as an opportunity to connect fans with athletes as athletes play video games. Jeremiah Carter, the U's compliance director, said in an interview Wednesday the U wrote its first NIL policy last summer to provide guidance and "put up as few barriers as possible" on what student-athletes can take advantage of in this new frontier of college sports. - Pioneer Press

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QB Tanner Morgan, Minnesota
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06/22/22 - Tanner Morgan, rSr/2023, Minnesota, 6-0, 204 (DS#21 QB) + More +

Minnesota has won as many as nine games in a season 10 times in its 140-year history, with six of those coming under coach Henry L. Williams from 1900-1905. The Gophers have hit the nine-win mark just four times since 1905, with three of those coming in the last six seasons. Fleck has guided the Gophers to two of those seasons. Quarterback Tanner Morgan had the best season of his career in 2019, under the direction of coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca. That season, he completed 66% of his passes for 3,253 yards, 30 TDs and 7 INTs. In the past two seasons combined (20 games) with coordinator Mike Sanford, Morgan completed 59% of his passes for 3,418 yards, 17 TDs and 14 INTs. Ciarrocca is back in the coordinator role this year. - Daily Camera

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QB Tanner Morgan, Minnesota
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05/29/22 - Chris Autman-Bell, rSr/2024, Minnesota, 6-0, 203 (DS#108 WR) + More +

Minnesota had six kickoff times announced by the Big Ten on Thursday, including its start against Penn State at 6:30 p.m. at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pa. This might be Penn State's "whiteout" game, where more than 100,000 fans in attendance wear the same color. The last time the U traveled to Penn State in 2016, then-Nittany Lions running back Saquon Barkley's overtime touchdown run propelled them to a 29-26 win. In 2019, No. 13 Minnesota topped No. 5 Penn State 31-26 to win back the Governor's Victory Bell in Minneapolis.

The Gophers had five other start times announced for the 2022 season. The season opener against Jerry Kill's New Mexico State squad is at 8 p.m. Sept. 1 at Huntington Bank Stadium. The nonconference home games against Western Illinois (11 a.m. Sept. 10) and Colorado (2:30 p.m. on Sept. 17). The Big Ten home opener, which is also homecoming, against Purdue will start at 11 a.m. on Oct. 1. After the U's idle week, U's road game at Illinois will start at 11 a.m. Oct. 15. - Pioneer Press

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WR Chris Autman-Bell, Minnesota
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05/13/22 - Zion Steptoe, rJr/2027, Minnesota, 5-11, 195 (DS#999 WR) + More +

Poised for a 2022 standout season: WR Zion Steptoe, freshman. David Bell's departure creates lots of pass-catching opportunities, and Steptoe is poised to take advantage. The four-star recruit from Little Elm, Texas, landed at Purdue after de-committing from Utah. He had five catches for 52 yards and a TD in the spring game. - AP College Football

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WR Zion Steptoe, Minnesota
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05/06/22 - Brevyn Spann-Ford, rSr/2024, Minnesota, 6-7, 260 (DS#13 TE) + More +

Poised for a 2022 standout season: TE Brevyn Spann-Ford, senior. The 6-foot-7 Spann-Ford took a step forward as a pass-catcher last season with 23 receptions for 296 yards and one touchdown. His blocking responsibilities undoubtedly will expand with the departure of sixth-year stalwart Ko Kieft. - AP College Football

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TE Brevyn Spann-Ford, Minnesota
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05/06/22 - Solomon Brown, rJr/2024, Minnesota, 5-11, 195 (DS#999 CB) + More +

The Gophers football program didn't suffer any significant departures before the NCAA transfer portal deadline last weekend. Minnesota had nickel back Sol Brown, punt returner/receiver Brock Annexstad, receiver Jonathan Mann, linebacker Ben Wileman and punter Daniel Sparks enter the portal before the NCAA cutoff. The most substantial player was Annexstad, its primary punt returner in 2021. The NCAA set Sunday as the deadline for players to leave their current school and still maintain eligibility at their new destination next season.

After spring ball ended with Saturday's game, Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck said: "Hopefully we keep everybody here." While that didn't pan out, Minnesota did avoid losing another impact player similar to when Mar'Keise "Bucky" Irving departed amid spring practices on April 8. The tailback from Illinois announced Sunday he will join the Oregon Ducks. Annexstad, a former walk-on from Norseland, Minn., was awarded a scholarship in 2018 and played in 21 games. He had nine returns for 71 yards last season. His brother, quarterback Zack Annexstad, transferred from Minnesota to Illinois State after the 2021 season. - Pioneer Press

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CB Solomon Brown, Minnesota
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