Michigan football players have reported to fall camp. On Wednesday, the Wolverines will hold their first practice ahead of the 2025 season.
Even just a few days ago, Michigan football added a player to the roster, but the long offseason has finally come to an end.
Bryce Underwood, who dazzled during the spring, will look to win the starting quarterback job this fall. That's an obvious storyline to follow this fall for Michigan football, here's a deeper look at that, and some others as the Wolverines get closer to the start of the 2025 season.
The quarterback battle
Most Michigan football fans have just assumed that the job would go to Bryce Underwood, but Sherrone Moore said last week that nothing has been decided, calling it an "open competition" at Big Ten Media Days.
That's the correct approach to take. Underwood should have to earn the job. Mikey Keene is a dude who feels capable of winning it. Jake Garcia seems more like an emergency option this season, and Jadyn Davis doesn't feel like a threat to win the job.
Michigan might need Keene at some point this season, sort of like the Patriots needed Drew Bledsoe that one season when Tom Brady first took the Patriots to the Super Bowl, however, it's hard to see Underwood not winning the job.
He offers so much from a running perspective, although Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy made that dynamic work pretty well in 2021. Could there could be a repeat of that?
It's not likely but you never know.