Brennan Abbott | Quarterback | Class of 2028 | Sumner High School | Bonney Lake, Washington
Brennan Abbott arrived at his new team listed as an athlete and the third quarterback on the depth chart. He knew what that meant.
“I knew I wasn’t going to start at QB going in, so I practiced as a WR,” he said. “But I would train with a QB coach before practice and on the weekends so if my number was called I would be ready.”
It was his fourth year in the sport and a competitive travel program that flew all over the country to play the best teams in it. Being QB3 there wasn’t an insult, it was just the reality of the room. Brennan took receiver reps in practice and did quarterback work on his own time — before practice, on weekends, on a schedule nobody was enforcing. Then, three weeks before the first game, his coach told him he’d won the starting job.
“I never gave that job back.”
That sentence is the shortest version of who he is. The Class of 2028 quarterback from Bonney Lake, Washington has now spent ten years around the game, and the pattern in his answers is consistent: he prepares for the call before there’s any evidence the call is coming.
It started in a living room. “I really loved playing catch with my dad,” he said. “We would be in the living room even, and I would be jumping over the couches to make a catch and throwing the ball to hit targets around.” Ten years later, the thing he loves about the position is the part that makes other people nervous. “I love the pressure and the ability to make a play — whether I’m making a run or throwing a bomb or giving my guys the ball so they can help the team be in the best position to win.”
He has a moment that backs the pressure part up. First round of AYF Nationals, his seventh grade year, his team down 20–0 heading into the fourth quarter. They won 21–20, and the game-winner was a post-corner from Brennan to Jayce Halasz. A twenty-point deficit erased in one quarter, ending on a route that requires the throw to be gone before the receiver breaks.
His view of the job reflects both stories. “In order to be a great QB you have to take the good with the bad. You have to have strong leadership skills and not be afraid of making plays.” The QB3 season is the good-with-the-bad half. The comeback is the other one.
The coach he credits most is Coach Westbrook, his 7v7 coach in sixth grade, and the reason is a season-long turnaround rather than a single speech. They struggled early, lost in a championship at their third tournament, and then went undefeated across the next three. Westbrook now runs Rise Football Academy, where Brennan trains with Davante Peterson. “I had to follow him there,” he said.
He watches Aaron Rodgers, specifically the early version. “He’s a pass-first playmaker, not afraid of making a play with his feet when he has to. The way he just effortlessly throws a ball is really fun to watch.” That’s a fair description of what Brennan is building toward.
The next six months, as he lays them out, are almost entirely physical and connective: gain weight, strength, and speed, and throw with great timing with his high school receivers. No abstractions. Those are the things that separate a good sophomore from a college prospect.
He has already put himself in front of people. Brennan has attended camps at the University of Washington, Eastern Washington, Central Washington, Idaho, Sam Houston State, and Pacific Lutheran, plus the Avery Strong Showcase in Tacoma. That’s a working camp circuit, not a token appearance.
And there’s a standard at his school. Sumner has won back-to-back Washington state championships, which Brennan brought up on his own to give his program credit. Then he added what he’s actually after: “I’m on a quest for a 3-peat.”
He was QB3 once. It didn’t take.
What Happens Between Camps
Brennan has done the hard part of visibility already. Six college programs have seen him throw in person, plus a showcase. That’s real, and it’s more than most quarterbacks in his class have done by this point.
Here’s the gap: the coaches who watched him in June aren’t watching Sumner play in October. Camp exposure is a snapshot. What keeps a name in front of those same people through a season is coverage, and that’s what upgrading a QB Magazine membership is built to produce — which matters more heading into this fall than it did at any earlier point in his career.
Custom graphics. Our design team builds pieces from a member’s own photos, stats, and milestones — game performances, camp announcements, offer and visit graphics, season recaps. For a quarterback whose next two years include college staffs checking in periodically, a clean, publication-quality graphic is what a coach forwards to another coach. A phone screenshot isn’t.
Our platforms, on top of his. Brennan posts on X and Instagram, and his audience there is largely people who already know him — school, teammates, the Bonney Lake community. QB Magazine’s accounts reach college staffs, position coaches, trainers, camp directors, and recruiting-side followers nationally. Running his content through our channels means his Friday night doesn’t stop at the county line.
Repetition into his senior year. Recruiting rewards familiarity. A staff that has seen his name six or eight times across a season doesn’t open his film as a stranger — they open it as a follow-up. That accumulation is worth the most for a player entering the stretch where evaluations actually get made, and it compounds every week it runs rather than every time he does something spectacular.
A profile that holds it all. Every feature, graphic, and post lives permanently on his QB Magazine profile, which gives a coach one link instead of a scroll through a feed. Over two seasons it becomes the complete case for him: the camps, the games, the numbers, the trajectory.
He said he wants a three-peat. If Sumner gets it, the quarterback who led them there should have a record that reaches past Washington — the same way a kid throwing at targets in his living room eventually ended up on a national travel team.
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