Ryan Cook offers New Mexico a developmental QB with a local connection and upside
Cook is a New Mexico native who brings a workmanlike background and some untapped development value to the Lobos, with experience at South Dakota School of Mines after redshirting in 2021 and appearing in one game in 2022. He was a captain at La Cueva, which hints at competitiveness and leadership, and he is majoring in exercise science, a small but useful indicator of discipline and football IQ. The biggest question is not pedigree but projection: he profiles as a depth and development quarterback rather than an established game-changing starter.
