Michigan Field Marshal Bryce Underwood showed glimpses of the growing pains he will experience as a first -year student and flashes of the promise that made him the best qualified high school football recruit in the Wolverines spring game on Saturday.
Underwood was 12 or 25 for 187 yards with an 88-yard pass in the wing closed to the closed wing Jalen Hoffman in a flickering of inverse fleas in a 17-0 victory for blue over corn.
Hi, he also recovered his own smoke, he had a couple of penalty delay and several wandering releases.
While the Wolverines made spring football in front of 30,000 fans in the big house, all eyes were in Underwood, and has felt comfortable with that.
“It’s just the pressure that came with my arm,” Underwood told The Detroit News at the beginning of this spring. “I can’t stop that.”
Underwood was fired in his first SNAP and his first complete for a loss. He threw some darts, usually on the floor, and was quick enough to escape the collapsed pockets to collect yards with his feet.
Underwood will compete with the second year student Jadyn Davis and the transfer of Fresno State Mikey Keene for playing time before the season of opening of the season on August 30 at home against Fresno State.
It is motivated to start and start a legacy race with high goals.
“A pair of Heisman and at least one Natty,” Underwood said last month in an interview about the “Rich Eisen Show.”
Underwood knows that there will be people who doubt that they can live up to exaggeration.
“It’s just a first -year student,” Underwood said. “He won to be good enough. I could keep that chip in my full three years.”
He attended Belleville High School, who is about 15 miles east of Ann Arbor, and turned his commitment to Michigan after previously LSU’s coaches last year had the intention of playing there.
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Tom Brady, a former Wolverine winner and seven times from the Super Bowl, spoke with the duration of Underwood the recruitment of the school through Facetime and the founder of Oracle Larry Ellison, one of the richest people in the world, also connected with him.
Jay Underwood told the Wall Street Journal that his son is expected to win more than $ 15 million in Michigan, but that does not guarantee that he takes the first click next autumn.
“Hey to win everything,” said Michigan coach Sherrone Moore. “He doesn’t want anything to be given.”
Underwood participated in practices with the team before beating Alabama in a bowl game, enrolled in classes in January and won a great experience in 14 private practices before a public scrimmage.
“Soccer is football,” he told Mlive.com. “The school is a bit more excessive now.”
Associated Press reports.
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