| No. 66 – Montana State Bobcats | |
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| Position | Offensive tackle |
| Personal information | |
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Listed weight | 300 lb (136 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Century (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| College | Montana State (2021–present) |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Titan Fleischmann is an American college footballoffensive tackle for theMontana State Bobcats.
Fleischmann attendedCentury High School inPocatello, Idaho, where he was a four-year starter, three-timeteam captain, and three-time all-conference honoree in football.[1] He was teammates with his younger brother, Bruin, while their father, Ryan, served asoffensive line coach.[2] Fleischmann playedtight end for the first three years before being moved tooffensive tackle.[3] As asenior, he earned first-team all-state honors fromSBLive.com after leading an offensive line which surrendered only threesacks all year long. Fleischmann also posted 27tackles and two sacks as adefensive lineman. Outside of football, he was a two-time captain on thebasketball team.[1]
Fleischmann was rated as a three-starrecruit and the third-best player in the state of Idaho, according to247Sports.[4] He received heavy interest fromMontana State University (MSU), but his recruitment was slowed down by theCOVID-19 pandemic, whichrestricted in-person contact.[2][3] In June 2020, Fleischmann and his father made the four-hour drive to the MSU campus inBozeman, Montana.[3] During the visit, Fleischmann committed to playingcollege football for theBobcats while standing in theBobcat Stadium parking lot andFaceTiming his coaches, who then cheered from their office windows.[2][3] He had also received an offer fromIdaho State.[3] Fleischmann signed with the Bobcats onNational Signing Day in December.[5] "Titan is an awesome kid, and when you have a guy with the athleticism of atight end and the body of a tackle you have someone who's going to be a really good player", said then-Montana State head coachJeff Choate.[5]
Fleischmann, who had hurt both of hisshoulder labrums in high school, underwent a pair of surgeries to repair his shoulders after arriving at MSU in 2021,[3] taking aredshirt in his first season.[1] After a year of rehab, he appeared in two games in2022 as a reserve.[3] Fleischmann entered the2023 campaign as the backupleft tackle on thedepth chart,[6] and played the first five games of the season before it was determined he needed knee surgery, sidelining him once again.[3] He recovered in time for spring practice the following year and was named the startingright tackle ahead of the2024 season opener againstNew Mexico, which marked his first career start.[3] Fleischmann went on to start all 16 games at right tackle, allowing one sack, one quarterback hit, and eight hurries as he helped the Bobcats reach theFCS national championship game.[7][8] He was named a second-team all-Big Sky honoree, as well as a third-team FCS All-American selection bySI.com.[1][9]
Fleischmann was named a team captain ahead of the2025 season.[1] He was the only full-time returning starter on the offensive line.[10] Fleischmann earned first-team all-Big Sky honors.[11]
Fleischmann comes from an athletic family. He was the first of four children born to Ryan and Meg (née Salness) Fleischmann, who played football and basketball, respectively, atIdaho State University.[2][12] All three of his mother's sisters played sports at theNaval Academy.[2] His maternal grandfather, Ty Salness, was teammates withO. J. Simpson on the national champion1967 USC Trojans football team;[2][13] Ty's paternal grandparents immigrated fromNorway.[14][15] Fleischmann's younger brother, Bruin, plays football at theAir Force Academy.[2][16]
Fleischmann'sgiven name, Titan, is a play on his grandfather Ty's name. However, his grandmother cried upon learning her future grandson's name because she feared he would be bullied for it.[2] "Fortunately for him, he ended up being big", joked his father. "It would be a hard handle if you're the smallest kid on the team."[2]
