When it comes to playing true freshmen quarterbacks, seeing is believing. After 10 games of watching Bear Bachmeier put No. 11 BYU in contention for the Big 12 championship game, former Cougar Brandon Doman is a converted soul.

“For a freshman to do what he’s doing — I’ve seen enough football in my life and in August I questioned whether or not he was capable of doing it,” Doman told the “Y’s Guys” livestream show. “But kudos to the coaching staff. They knew him, they recruited him, they had enough background to know who this young man is and what he’s all about.”

Doman went 14-2 as a starting quarterback at BYU (2000-01) and he was selected in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL draft by San Francisco. He returned to the Cougars as the quarterback’s coach (2005-10) and worked with 11,000-ya

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