Quarterback Zach Pryon’s stint with the Gophers’ football program didn’t last through spring practices.

Pyron, who transferred in from Georgia Tech for spring semester in January, is now back in the NCAA transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Pioneer Press on Thursday.

Pyron didn’t receive many team reps during the final two spring practices open to reporters, including April 8 and Tuesday when Max Shikenjanski and Dylan Wittke received most of the snaps behind rising redshirt freshman and presumed starter, Drake Lindsey.

Gophers coach P.J. Fleck downplayed the lack of plays Pyron received during team periods of Tuesday’s practices. He said on other days the share of reps is distributed differently; Tuesday’s practice was the U’s 12th out of a possible 15.

“We are rotating a lot of the quarterbacks,” Fleck said. “Don’t read into who’s getting reps when because you will be in a circle. That doesn’t necessarily matter. It’s based on how many reps they got during practices, where we wanted to put them. I want to put people in different situations with different players.

“That is what is great about spring,” Fleck continued. “You can watch different players do things with different people. You are constantly evaluating that.”

Fleck then put himself in his players’ shoes: “‘Am I allowing me to raise the level of play, no matter who is in there? Or do I need the level of play to affect me? And vice versa, am I doing the same to other people?’ That is what I’m watching, too.”

At one point during Tuesday’s practice, Pyron was standing away from the rest of the quarterbacks, with his helmet sitting atop his head. He then came in to the tail end of practice and threw two touchdown passes.

Pyron was the most-experienced option at QB for the Gophers, having played 19 games for the Yellowjackets over three seasons. He threw for 995 yards, five touchdowns and seven interceptions from 2022-24.

The spring transfer portal window remains open for players to join until April 25; it’s unclear if Pyron’s exit will result in the Gophers going back into the portal for another option at QB or if they will stand pat with the current QBs going into 2025.

Lindsey played in three games in 2024, allowing the four-star recruit from Lafayette, Ark., to keep his redshirt in his first season. Lindsey completed 3 of 4 passes for 50 yards and one touchdown.

Behind Lindsey is Shikenjanski, a third-year walk-on from Stillwater; Wittke, a third-year transfer from Georgia Tech; and Pollock, a true freshman from Laguna Beach, Calif.

On3 and 247Sports first shared news of Pyron on Thursday.