Nolan Roach
Nolan Roach
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Oliver West | Prep Redzone Scout
I’ve slowly grown to love and admire the tough, fearless, physical prospects the Spring Lake Park Panthers regularly produce, and this 2025 roster is something special. One of the cornerstones of the Panthers success this fall has been their standout QB Nolan Roach Nolan Roach 6'0" | 160 lbs | QB/ATH Spring Lake Park | 2027 State MN , a 6′, 175 lber. in his first year taking the reigns full-time of the perennial standout 5A competitor. Roach played in seven games as a sophomore in 2024, throwing for a TD pass and a rushing for 3 more, but he’s really embraced the role as QB1 in 2025, going 40-75 (60%) for 853 passing yards and 10 TDs + 240 yards and 6 TDs rushing in eight games of regular season action this fall.
Manning the Panthers triple-option offensive attack, which emphasizes its ball carrying, Roach shows a good arm that can stretch the field, deliver accurate strikes downfield in the pocket and through oncoming contact and huge hits, and put the ball on the $ on some difficult passes to the second and third levels of the gridiron in his 2025 regular season tape. Roach is also a shifty, instinctive, aware scrambler who maneuvers the pocket smoothly and sent some defenders flying onto their faces thanks to well-timed cuts, and he throws a good ball on the move as well. The Panthers QB1 – who doubles as a good basketball player with the Northstar Titans AAU squad, good baseball player with SLP, and 4.0 GPA student – is overall an accurate passer and a smart, shifty, fast-paced ball carrier who can easily churn out first downs and move the chains. Roach, as well as the plethora of tailbacks the Panthers have to offer in 2025, is going to be hard to manage now that it’s late October and playoff time.
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