2022: Team captain ... Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Newcomer Team selection ... MVFC First-Team All-Academic team pick ... started eight games at quarterback for the Redbirds, before missing the final three games of the season due to injury … completed 62.8 percent of his passes for 1,691 yards with 11 touchdowns … averaged 211 yards passing per game … led the team with four rushing touchdowns on the year … rallied in conference play to complete 63 percent of his passes for nearly 1,100 yards with just two interceptions and seven touchdown passes … had a career-high 274 yards and two touchdowns in a win at Indiana State … two-time MVFC Newcomer of the Week.

2021 at Minnesota: Competed at Colorado, seeing his first game action at quarterback since Oct. 20, 2018, at Nebraska ... played at Northwestern and led Minnesota on its final scoring drive of the game.

2020 at Minnesota: Did not see game action.

2019 at Minnesota: Missed the season after sustaining an injury during training camp.

2018 at Minnesota: Named starting quarterback by coach P.J. Fleck ... believed to be the second walk-on true freshman quarterback to start a season opener, joining Baker Mayfield who started his first game at Texas Tech in 2013 after walking on ... started the first seven games of the season and played in eight total ... started career 3-0 to become first Gopher freshman quarterback to ever start and win first three games of career ... hampered for the second half of the season with an injury ... completed 97 passes for 1,277 yards (third most all-time for a Minnesota freshman) and nine touchdowns (tied for third most all-time for a Minnesota freshman with Tanner Morgan).

IMG Academy: As a senior, completed 63-of-112 passes for 940 yards and 10 touchdowns, as he helped lead IMG Academy to an undefeated season ... finished career with 1,137 passing yards and 14 touchdowns ... was the starting quarterback at Mankato West as a sophomore in 2015, but was sidelined by an ankle injury ... three-star recruit by 247Sports and the No. 45 ranked pro-style quarterback and No. 214 overall recruit in Florida by 247Sports.

Personal: Son of Scott and Jennifer Annexstad ... brother, Brock, is a receiver for the Gophers ... father, Scott, played at Minnesota from 1982-83 and then saw time with Kansas City and Washington in the NFL ... cousin, Sam Dekker, played basketball at Wisconsin from 2012-15 and has played in the NBA for the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Zack Annexstad