Football Notebook: Glasser Shines in First Start at Quarterback

CMU Football vs Miami (Ohio), October 24th, 2026

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10/25/2026 11:09:00 AM | Football

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By: Andy Sneddon

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Jadyn Glasser stepped up, admirably, at quarterback on Saturday in Central Michigan's 28-27 Mid-American Conference loss to Miami at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

He completed 18 of his 31 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown. The yardage total marked a season high for the CMU passing game, and all three numbers were career highs for the 6-foot-3, 245-pound junior from Tampa.

It was Glasser's first start of the season as Angel Flores sat out with an injury.

CMU coach Matt Drinkall said Flores, a senior, will likely be out for the season after undergoing ankle surgery following the Chippewas' 21-14 loss to Western Michigan one week earlier.

Glasser is no rookie. He has appeared in seven of the Chippewas' eight games this season and has taken plenty of snaps throughout his three seasons in a CMU uniform.

"Angel and Jadyn are both tremendous players, but they're exactly good at the opposite things," Drinkall said. "Even as people, they're pretty different. Angel's kind of like the very studious uncle or your big brother who's, like, way older than you, who gets you right.

"And Jadyn is, like, a hype guy, one of the guys who gets you excited. He's big, strong guy in the weight room, physically really skilled. And there's just something about him. Like, when he goes out there, he makes the guys feel like he can do it and he's matured a ton."

With Flores, the Chippewas offense was clearly run first, with the quarterback as the top option. He averaged 4.8 yards per carry and totaled 618 yards through seven games.

With Glasser, the Chippewa offense is likely to look much more traditional and balanced between the run and the pass.

Glasser's performance on Saturday was indicative of that, as was his maturity, Drinkall said.

"I talked to him this week," Drinkall said. "I was like, 'You know, What if this is how your story was supposed to go?' Where he doesn't win the job right out of the gate so that he can learn and mature and see how it's supposed to be. So when his opportunity came, he was ready to go.

"He can make every throw that exists in the universe and then some. And what he did (against Miami) was he didn't try to do that. He didn't force anything. He didn't try to make the extra play. He just was great at all the basic, ordinary stuff. And when he does that, his skill set is so good, he makes it very, very difficult to defend in a different way than Angel does."

Glasser came out of the chute firing on Saturday, completing his first four passes for 76 yards on the Chippewas' first drive of the game, which ended in a field goal and a 3-0 lead.

"Going into it, obviously it's a little bit like I'm a little nervous of course, but as soon as you complete that first pass it's all go from there," Glasser said, then added of the game plan. "It's just knowing situations (and) not forcing stuff and just taking what the defense gives me, not trying to do too much.

"You know, I always thought like, Oh, if you're the quarterback, you've got to be the hero. But you really don't have to be; you've got to let your ballplayers make plays.

"I couldn't do it without my guys. The whole line blocked great today, and the running backs picked up blitzes; they all did good. Receivers got open. I couldn't do it without my guys."

Big Day for Lewis
It's no secret that fifth-year Langston Lewis is among the Chippewas' most dangerous offensive weapons.

On Saturday, he proved it, making 10 catches for 163 yards and a touchdown.

The reception and yardage totals marked career highs, and it marked the first time that a Chippewa receiver had made 10 catches in a game since Jesse Prewitt hit the decade mark at South Alabama on Sept. 23, 2023, a stretch of 41 games.

It also marked the first time a CMU pass catcher crested the 150-yard mark since the late Titus Davis finished with 181 yards against Ohio on Oct. 4, 2014, a 148-game stretch.

The 10 catches ties for the second most by a MAC receiver in a game this season and the 163 yards ranks as the third most.

Before Saturday's game, Lewis had 14 catches for 216 yards on the season.

Ugh, Those Yellow Flags
The Chippewas were flagged 10 times for 83 yards in Saturday's game. The 10 penalties marked a season high, and the 83 yards was one shy of their season high.

Most damning among those penalties came on Miami's final TD scoring drive. The Chippewas were flagged three times, twice for pass interference and once for holding.

The first call, a holding, came with Miami facing a second-and-10 at its own 41-yard line and it gave the RedHawks a first down at the CMU 49.

The next, a pass interference, came on first down with Miami at the CMU 10 and moved the ball to the 5-yard line and an automatic first down. The final came one play later in the end zone and gave the RedHawks a first down at the CMU 2 with 1:41 left. Miami scored the go-ahead TD on the next play.

In all, Miami went 75 yards in eight plays in 2:36.

"We always play the next play," CMU cornerback Justin Taylor said. "That's the biggest thing that was being said across the defense. Just play the next play.

"You're going to get calls that are questionable, you're going to get calls that you don't agree with. But at the end of the day, officials are going to officiate and it's a player's game. We've got to go out there and execute and just be better to leave no questions."

Defensive Standouts
Linebacker Mayson Hitchens led the Chippewa defense with 11 tackles, while safety Darrell Bryant Jr. added seven.

Taylor returned an interception 46 yards for a TD, his first as a Chippewa.

It was his second interception of the season and his pick-six was CMU's first since Jordan Kwiatkowski's on Nov. 12, 2025 against Buffalo.

Injury Bug
Not only did the Chippewas play without Flores, but they lost linebacker Xavier White to an injury in the third quarter. White left the field and did not return.

White entered the game with a team-high 52 stops on the season. Drinkall had no update on White's injury, or his prognosis, in his postgame press conference.

Moving On
The loss to Miami closed a rugged three-game stretch during which CMU faced three of the MAC's elite teams, Ohio, Western Michigan and the RedHawks.

Ohio leads the league at 4-0 in conference games, while Miami and Western, along with Buffalo and Toledo, are tied for second at 3-1.

The Chippewas go to Buffalo on Nov. 18; they are not scheduled to play Toledo this season.

"After a tough loss like this, it's kind of difficult to put into words, you know, like what we do next," Taylor said. "We have to learn from mistakes, and we have to have the mentality that sometimes you've got to leave no doubt out there. You've got to ultimately get the job done and leave no doubt to anybody, the officials, coaches, the opponent.

"We want to stop being close. We want to come up with those wins. We want to come up with those plays. And (teammates) will all agree with me on that. We're tired of being close in those situations."

Next
The Chippewas face Eastern Michigan in the Motor City MACtion game on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at Ford Field in Detroit.

The Eagles are 4-5, 3-2 MAC after a 24-20 loss at Ohio on Saturday.

It marks the second time CMU and Eastern have played at Ford Field. In 2004, the Eagles defeated the Chippewas, 61-58, in four overtimes at the home of the Detroit Lions.