2025 Football Roster
Roster
Hunter Simmons
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- QB
- Hometown:
- Marion, Ill.
- High School:
- Marion
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 229
2025 Season (Redshirt Senior): Played in nine games, making four starts at quarterback … finished the season with 664 passing yards and two touchdowns and seven interceptions on 62-of-118 passing … threw for 70 yards and a touchdown on 7-of-9 passing against Maryland (Sept. 20) … made first start as a a Badger at Michigan (Oct. 4) … threw for 82 yards on 8-of-21 passing against Iowa (Oct. 11) … completed 7-of-21 passes for 86 yards and one touchdown and one interception against Oregon (Oct. 25) … completed 12-of-19 passes for 162 yards against Minnesota (Nov. 29)
2024 (Redshirt Junior at Southern Illinois) Played in 5 games and made 3 starts before suffering a season-ending injury … completed 73-of-128 passes (.570) for 852 yards, 3 TDs and 0 interceptions on the season … had a pair of 300-yard passing games vs. SEMO (341) and South Dakota (306)
2023 (Redshirt Sophomore at Southern Illinois) Played in 5 games as Nic Baker's backup … completed 18-of-35 passes for 169 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT … had a season-high 6-of-10 passing for 60 yards and a touchdown at Western Illinois
2022 (Redshirt Freshman at Southern Illinois) Did not see action … named to the MVFC's Honor Roll
2021 (Freshman at Southern Illinois) Played in 1 game (Dayton) and had 1 carry for 2 yards ... Redshirted
High School/Personal
- The Southern Illinoisan Football Player of the Year in 2020
- Led Marion HS to a 6-0 record his senior year in a COVID-shortened season, completing 108 of 168 passes (64.3 percent) for 1,693 yards with 13 touchdowns and one interception
- Added 242 yards rushing on 31 carries, scoring five TDs
