Eight days after losing a veteran quarterback to the transfer portal, the Gophers on Friday added a QB who will join the team for the 2025 season when Emmett Morehead, formerly of Boston College and Old Dominion, announced on X that he is joining the program.
Morehead, 6-5 and 225 pounds, spent three seasons at Boston College — redshirting in 2021, becoming a part-time starter in 2022 and serving in a backup role in 2023 before transferring to Old Dominion. He did not play for the Monarchs in 2024 because of a knee injury and entered the transfer portal in December.
At Boston College, Morehead played in 16 games with four starts in 2022. He completed 136 of 238 passes (57.1%) for 1,465 yards and 10 touchdowns with six interceptions. His best games came in 2022, when he had back-to-back 330-yard passing games against Duke and North Carolina State.
A three-star recruit out of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., Morehead was the 46th-ranked player in Virginia and the 112th-ranked QB nationally in the 2021 class by 247Sports.com. His scholarship offers out of high school included Power Four schools Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech and West Virginia.
