{"id":919538,"date":"2026-07-07T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919538\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:42:19","slug":"conner-weigman-looks-to-keep-flourishing-with-willie-fritz-at-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919538\/","title":{"rendered":"Conner Weigman looks to keep flourishing with Willie Fritz at Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 On Tuesday morning, Brett Yormark<\/a> described the Big 12 as the \u201cconference of quarterbacks,\u201d touting the conference\u2019s new and returning talent at the position.<\/p>\n

One of the top returners ahead of the 2026 season is Houston\u2019s Conner Weigman,<\/a> who helped the program to a 10-3 mark in 2025. He started 13 games in his first season at the school, throwing for 2,705 yards, 25 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also ran for 700 yards and 11 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re one of a few teams in the country that has the same offensive\/defensive\/special teams coordinator and the same starting quarterback coming back,\u201d Houston head coach Willie Fritz said during his Tuesday appearance at Big 12 media days. \u201cI think there\u2019s maybe 11 schools like that in the country. If you\u2019ve got that, it\u2019s a really good building block for your program.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Houston, Weigman has the opportunity to flourish in a consistent system. The former Texas A&M quarterback <\/a>battled injuries early in his collegiate career, which forced him to miss out on valuable playing time. Now, he\u2019ll look to reach another level while working with offensive coordinator Slade Nagle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m able to do everything in the offseason, which is a nice feeling. It\u2019s satisfying being able to be there with my brothers, going through some tough workouts and coming out the other side a better football player,\u201d\u00a0Weigman said. \u201cGoing through things like that, it only prepares you for the season. I\u2019ll be ready to go this year, and I\u2019m excited for what we\u2019re about to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on his comments in Frisco, Fritz isn\u2019t only excited about the present for Houston\u2019s quarterback position. This offseason, the team also welcomed five-star recruit Keisean Henderson to its roster.<\/p>\n

When Weigman was a high schooler, he was also one of the top quarterback recruits in his class. Fritz said he plans on making the most of Henderson\u2019s dual-threat abilities when a game calls for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s been really neat is, I\u2019ve never had two five-star quarterbacks before any place I\u2019ve ever been. I\u2019ve never had one, much less two,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cThose guys are both so unselfish. Everybody keeps asking me what kind of package we\u2019re going to run with Keisean. We\u2019re going to run our total package with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 On Tuesday morning, Brett Yormark described the Big 12 as the \u201cconference of quarterbacks,\u201d touting the conference\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":919539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[10768,4345,358,290508,3187],"class_list":["post-919538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-brief","tag-houston","tag-texas","tag-tp-colleges","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116881112877528749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}