Last season the Gophers played an inordinate amount of freshmen throughout the season. Depending on how you decide to categorize a player’s contributions, there were 7 true freshmen and 6 or 7 redshirt freshmen who contributed last season beyond just special teams and minimal snaps.
With so many freshman being a factor on last year’s squad, lets run down this year’s freshmen and see who may be counted upon to have an impact.
Redshirt Freshmen
This group is a little easier to project. Due to the new redshirt rules last season, the staff was able to get the then true freshmen into 4 games.