Tom Brady’s top 3 moments with Michigan Football: The comeback kid

3. A Valiant effort

In Brady’s junior season, he started every game and won 10 of his last 11 performances. So his senior year he would be the starting quarterback, captain, and have a chance at a national championship correct?

Wrong. Incoming competition made the first half of Brady’s senior season extremely complicated. Drew Henson, a sophomore athletic freak, was in striking distance of the starting role. As the first game came, Coach Lloyd Carr decided to have Brady play the first quarter and Henson play the second quarter.

Whoever had the hot hand would be the quarterback in the second half. That worked for the first five games until the Wolverines ran into trouble in the in-state rivalry game against Michigan State.

Henson got Michigan football in a 17-point hole. Despite losing the game, Brady nearly brought the Wolverines back.

With a final score of 34-31, Michigan football had suffered its first loss of the season. This was Tom Brady’s third-best moment as Wolverine because, forget the loss, Brady separated himself in the QB battle between him and Henson, and the rest of the season was history.

Brady had made it a goal when he got to the University of Michigan that he would be the starting quarterback. When he was finally able to secure the role, he put on a show, but when that role was taken away from him once again, he wasn’t going to quit.

Brady’s senior season was a grind, a battle, and although he knew Henson was the better athlete with a stronger arm, faster feet, and more potential, there was zero chance a motivated Tom Brady with his work ethic and drive to success was going to allow the hyped-up sophomore to take his role as the quarterback.