Iowa State football sent starting quarterback Rocco Becht to the bench early following a stellar performance against South Dakota on Saturday.
Becht left the game with the Cyclones leading, 34-7, and was replaced by true freshman Alex Manske, a 6-foot-3 signal caller from Algona, Iowa.
In his first drive, Manske led the Cyclones into the end zone. On his first college snap, he took the ball 13 yards on a rush up the middle. That set up an 11-yard Xavier Townsend rushing score.
Manske was a four-star recruit according to the 247 Composite and was a Class 3A All-Iowa selection by the Des Moines Register as a senior. During his final year of high school football, he threw for 1,456 yards and 18 touchdowns with no interceptions despite missing the end of his high school football career due to an injury.
Over his entire career at Algona, he posted 4,933 passing yards, 49 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, along with 1,414 rushing yards and 27 touchdowns on the ground.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Who is Alex Manske? Iowa State football true freshman QB enters South Dakota game
Reporting by Will Kennedy, Des Moines Register / Des Moines Register
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