{"id":394635,"date":"2026-01-08T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:31:07","slug":"byu-qb-bear-bachmeier-will-return-to-cougars-in-2026-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394635\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU QB Bear Bachmeier will return to Cougars in 2026 \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unsurprisingly, Bear Bachmeier is staying put in Provo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU\u2019s star freshman quarterback is returning to the Cougars in 2026, he announced Wednesday via social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first true freshman quarterback to start a season opener in BYU history, Bachmeier led the Cougars to a 12-2 campaign with a Big 12 championship game appearance and Pop-Tarts Bowl victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bachmeier threw for 3,033 yards and 15 touchdowns, adding another 527 yards and 11 scores on the ground.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bachmeier joins Faletau Satuala, Parker Kingston, Keanu Tanuvasa and a number of other BYU players who have already announced their returns in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly, Bear Bachmeier is staying put in Provo. BYU\u2019s star freshman quarterback is returning to the Cougars in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,3125,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-394635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-news-feed-local","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}