University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Career Honors
2023: Honorable mention All-Ivy
2023: CSC Academic All-District Team
2023: PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Team (Unanimous selection)
2022: Honorable mention All-Ivy
2022: CSC Academic All-District
Penn's all-time leader in completions (719)
No. 2 in passing yards at Penn (7,177)
No. 4 in passing TDs (45)
No. 5 in completion percentage (62.0)

2024: Team co-captain for the second straight year … Made six starts at quarterback for the Quakers before missing the rest of the year with injury … Finished year with 1,108 yards, averaging 184.7 yards per game, along with six touchdowns and five interceptions … Completed 100 passes, a 60 percent completion rate … Added two TDs on the ground … Tossed two touchdowns and 228 yards in season opener at Delaware (9/21) … Registered a season-high 320 passing yards against Colgate (9/28), also recording a season-high three touchdown passes … Failed to score a TD despite a season-high 49 pass attempts vs. Columbia (10/19) … Suffered season-ending injury after just three pass attempts vs. Yale (10/25) … Set program record for career completions (719) and finished just 366 yards shy of becoming Penn’s all-time leading passer. He managed to jump Alek Torgersen for second place, closing his career in the Red and Blue with 7,177 yards, 45 touchdowns and a completion percentage of 62.0.

2023: Co-captain ... Honorable mention All-Ivy selection … Started all 10 games at quarterback for the Quakers … Totaled a career-high 2,805 passing yards (second among Ivy QBs), 278 completions (second in Ivy) and 16 touchdowns (third in Ivy) … Completed 64.7 percent of his passes, the second-best among Ivy quarterbacks and averaged 279.1 passing yards per game, second among Ivy QBs and fifth in NCAA FCS football … Concluded season with five games over 300 yards passing and four 350+ yard games, the first Quaker in program history to record four such games in a single season … Enters his senior season ranked second among Penn quarterbacks in career pass attempts (983), third in passing yards (6,069), third in completions (619), fourth in TD passes (39) and fourth in completion percentage (63 percent) … Recorded the first 300-yard game of his career at Bucknell (9/23) with 354 yards on 35 completions and three touchdowns … Tallied 357 yards on 36 completions with two scores vs. Dartmouth (9/30) … Went 33-for-48 through the air with 364 yards and two TD throws in a victory over Yale (10/21) … Recorded his third 300-yard outing with 322 yards and two touchdowns vs. Brown (10/27) … Set a new career-high in passing yards with 385 against Princeton (11/18), adding three TDs … CSC Academic All-District Team … A unanimous PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Team honoree. 

2022: Honorable mention All-Ivy selection … Played and started all 10 games at quarterback … Led the Ivy League in total completions (253) and was tied for the lead in touchdown passes (18) … His 2,344 yards passing were the second-most in the Ivy League, averaging 234.4 yards per game … Had five total TDs at Georgetown (10/8) —with four through the air— becoming the first Penn player to account for at least five touchdowns since 2010 and the seventh since 1940 … Tallied at least one passing touchdown in all 10 games, with at least a pair on five occasions … Also registered two rushing touchdowns … Named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week after leading the Quakers to a come-from-behind victory at #22 Princeton (11/19), where he completed 38 of his 47 pass attempts for 261 yards and two touchdowns … CSC Academic All-District honoree.

2021: Started the final five games of the season at quarterback … Passed for a team-leading 920 yards and five TDs … Passed for 114 yards and two TDs at Yale (10/23) … Threw for 97 yards and two TDs against Brown (10/30) … Completed 26-of-45 passes for a season-high 247 yards versus Cornell (11/6) … Completed 20-of-36 for 207 yards at Harvard (11/13) … Passed for 255 yards and a TD against Princeton (11/20). 

High School: Two-time letter winner in football … Served as team captain as a senior … All-CIF first team in 2021 … Two-time first-team all-league (2019, 2021).

Personal: Son of Karen Brandenburg and Dan Sayin … Older sister, Bailey, played soccer at the University of Chicago … Younger brother, Julian, plays quarterback at Ohio State ... Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.