As the Broncos take aim at another New Year’s bowl, their QB earns a rare nod.
Many teams in the Mountain West can attest to the fact that it can be difficult to find a top-flight player at the most important position on the field: Quarterback. That explains, in part, why the Davey O’Brien Award, given annually to the nation’s best signal-caller, includes just one name from the conference on this year’s watch list: Boise State’s Brett Rypien.
Rypien is one of just five sophomores to be named to the O’Brien list, joining Jake Browning (Washington), Tanner Mangum (BYU), Josh Rosen (UCLA) and Brent Stockstill (Middle Tennessee).