Michigan Quarterback Bryce Underwood showed a glimpse of the growing pains he experiences as a freshman and a flash of promise that he made him the nation’s top high school soccer recruit at a spring game for the Wolverines on Saturday.
Underwood scored 12 of 25 for 187 yards and 88 yards of passing, finishing scrimmage, earning tight end Jalen Hoffman with a 17-0 win for corn flicker.
He also recovered his own fumble, with delayed delays in the game and some false throws.
As Wolverine concludes his spring football in front of 30,000 fans in Big House, all his eyes are in Underwood, and he’s happy with it.
“It’s just the pressure that came on my arm,” Underwood told Detroit News earlier this spring. “I can’t stop that.”
Underwood was fired in his first snap, and his first completion was defeated. He usually threw a few darts in the flat and was fast enough to escape from his collapsed pocket to pick up yards with his feet.
Underwood will compete with sophomore Jadyn Davis and Fresno State Transfer Mikey Keene before the opening game at home with Fresno State on August 30th.
He has the motivation to kick off a legacy building career with lofty goals.
“Some Heismans and at least one nutty,” Underwood said in an interview with “The Rich Eisenshaw” last month.
Underwood knows that there are people who doubt he can live up to the hype.
“He’s just a freshman,” Underwood said. I might keep that whole chip for three years. ”
He attended Belleville High School, about 15 miles east of Ann Arbor, flipping his commitment to Michigan after telling LSU coach last year he intended to play earlier.
[MORE: How Michigan flipped star QB Bryce Underwood from LSU]
Former Wolverine and seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady spoke with Underwood during his school recruitment through Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of the world’s wealthiest people and founder of FaceTime and Oracle.
Jay Underwood told The Wall Street Journal that his son is expected to make more than $15 million in Michigan, but that doesn’t guarantee he will take his first snap next fall.
“He wants to get it all,” Michigan coach Sheron Moore said. “He doesn’t want anything to be given.”
Underwood took part in practice with the team before beating Alabama in a bowl game, signed up for class in January, gaining plenty of experience in 14 private practices before public scrimmage.
“Soccer is soccer,” he told Mlive.com. “School is now a little more overwhelming.”
Report by Associated Press.
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