Colton Joseph is an American college football quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers. He previously played for the Old Dominion Monarchs.
Joseph attended high school at Newport Harbor located in Newport Beach, California. Coming out of high school, he committed to play college football for the Old Dominion Monarchs.
Joseph redshirted his freshman year at Old Dominion. In week eight of the 2024 season, Joseph completed 15 of his 28 passes for 130 yards, while adding 111 yards and three touchdowns on the ground in a win over Texas State. In week nine, he completed 20 of his 26 passes for 304 yards and four touchdowns, while also adding 69 yards and a touchdown on the ground in a victory over Georgia Southern. He finished the 2024 season, playing in nine games with eight starts, where he completed 133 of his 222 pass attempts for 1,627 yards and 11 touchdowns, with five interceptions, while rushing 114 times for 647 yards and a 11 touchdowns.
Joseph entered the 2025 season as the team's starter, where in their week one matchup he completed 11 of his 22 passes for 96 yards and three interceptions, but rushed for 179 yards and two touchdowns on ten carries, in a loss to Indiana. His emergence as a dual-threat quarterback garnered national attention after finishing the 2025 season with 2,624 passing yards, 21 passing touchdowns, 1,007 rushing yards, and 13 rushing touchdowns, leading the Monarchs to a 9âÂÂ3 record that sent them to the 2025 Cure Bowl. On December 9, 2025, Joseph entered the transfer portal and would forgo playing in the Cure Bowl.
On January 4, 2026, Joseph transferred to Wisconsin.