{"id":671029,"date":"2026-01-12T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/671029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:09:13","slug":"michigan-football-lands-csu-qb-transfer-brayden-fowler-nicolosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/671029\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan football lands CSU QB transfer Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado State quarterback transfer Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi<\/a> has committed to Michigan Wolverines football<\/a>, according to a report from ESPN. U-M is entering its first season under head coach Kyle Whittingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder spent four seasons at Colorado State and has one year of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n

According to the On3 Industry Rankings, Fowler-Nicolosi is the No. 973 overall player and No. 57 quarterback in the NCAA transfer portal.<\/p>\n

The Aledo, Texas, native appeared in 31 games with 28 starts across his four-year career with the Rams. He completed 583 of his 969 pass attempts (60.2 percent) for 6,938 yards and 38 touchdowns with 29 interceptions.<\/p>\n

Fowler-Nicolosi is slated to be the only upperclassman quarterback on Michigan\u2019s roster next season and is expected to compete for the backup job behind sophomore Bryce Underwood<\/a>, who opened all 13 games in 2025. <\/p>\n

The quarterback started CSU\u2019s first three games, before deciding to move on from the school after head coach Jay Norvell was fired in September despite being named a captain preseason. He was benched in favor of backup Jackson Brousseau during a 17-16 loss to UTSA, which ended up being his last contest as a Ram. In his three-game year, he completed 44 of his 82 passes for 488 yards and 1 touchdown with 2 interceptions.<\/p>\n

The 2023 and 2024 seasons were the most productive of Fowler-Nicolosi\u2019s career. In 2023, he completed 62.1 percent of his passes for 3,460 yards and 22 touchdowns with 16 interceptions, adding a rushing touchdown. In 2024, the signal-caller connected on 60.5 percent of his throws for 2,796 yards and 14 touchdowns with 9 picks, also running for 75 yards and 4 scores. He was named honorable mention All-Mountain West in 2023.<\/p>\n

As a true freshman in 2022, Fowler-Nicolosi competed in two games after enrolling early the prior winter. He went 17-of-37 passing for 194 yards and 2 touchdowns with 1 interception that year. Colorado State opened up the season against Michigan, losing by a wide margin \u2014\u00a051-7 \u2014 at The Big House, but Fowler-Nicolosi didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

A three-star recruit in the 2022 class, he attended Aledo (Texas) High and was the No. 67 quarterback in the nation.<\/p>\n

A fiery quarterback, Fowler-Nicolosi is known in part for his preseason trash talk about arch rival Colorado. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how far Instagram followers get you,\u201d he said in an interview. After a double-overtime loss to the Buffaloes, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders refused to shake Fowler-Nicolosi\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado State quarterback transfer Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi has committed to Michigan Wolverines football, according to a report from ESPN.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97669,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-671029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-brayden-fowler-nicolosi-22-aledo","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115881349246163598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}