Bright news for Badger fans out of San Antonio on Saturday.
Highly anticipated four-star quarterback recruit Graham Mertz claimed MVP honors and threw a bowl record five touchdown passes in the 2019 All-American Bowl on Saturday in San Antonio Texas.
A tweet by the All-American Bowl twitter account recounts the first half record broken on Saturday.
New Record @GrahamMertz5 has now broken the All-American Bowl record for most touchdown passes (3).
Let’s see what he has left for the 2nd half. pic.twitter.com/LRm9Zzahy8
— All-American Bowl (@19AllAmerican) January 5, 2019
Mertz helped the East defeat the West in a 48-14 win in a showcase of the best high school talent across the nation. Mertz also completed 7 of 14 passes with no interceptions totaling 188 yards.
Mertz will be in Madison next week as a midyear enrollee.
