The Michigan Wolverines have made freshman Bryce Underwood their starting quarterback for the 2025 season, which kicks off a new era in Ann Arbor.
TheWolverine.com’s Anthony Broome, Chris Balas and Clayton Sayfie discuss the official word coming down in addition to surging players ahead of the first game, bold predictions, your questions and more.
“ This guy is the real deal,” Balas said. “Now my biggest concern is, are they going to get the blocking for him up front? Is he going to have the offensive line to protect him? I’d feel much better, for example, if he were being thrown into the mix like [Chad Henne] in 2004, when you had that outstanding wide receiver trio, you had Mike Hart back there pass blocking, and you had a really solid offensive line. There are still a lot of question marks, so a lot more is going to fall on his shoulders than it did on Chad Henne back in 2004.
“To me, there’s no question that he’s going to be great in time. We’ll just see how quickly he gets there.”
”Things around him need to be good,” Sayfie said of the Michigan signal-caller. “You want him not to have to get hit from his blind side and not have to run around too much and not be put in too many third and long situations and things like that. But he’s clearly the best quarterback for this team, I think he would’ve won the job regardless of who was healthy. But early in the season, he’s going to have to stay healthy. He’s going to have to be able to be in a position to be in the football game because they don’t have a ton of depth there right now.
“But yeah, this was going to happen. Sherrone Moore was asked today when he thought it was possible that Bryce Underwood could be the starter. He said about halfway through camp, and maybe it was the first time that they were in the Big House for a scrimmage. You had ideas of this for months and months and months, and started to see the signs, I think right away in camp in the first scrimmage or whatever it was.
“That this guy’s the real deal and potentially one of the better quarterbacks in the conference right away.”
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