{"id":573048,"date":"2026-04-09T03:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:05:17","slug":"expert-predicts-michigan-football-to-flip-4-star-qb-from-big-ten-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573048\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert predicts Michigan Football to flip 4-star QB from Big Ten rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After visiting Ann Arbor this past weekend, the Michigan Wolverines are surging in the recruitment of 2027 four-star quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/kamden-lopati-241681\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamden Lopati<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder from Salt Lake City, Utah has been committed to Illinois since last summer, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Kyle Whittingham, Jason Beck and Koy Detmer Jr. from pursuing him whatsoever. In fact, it hasn\u2019t stopped a lot of schools, as Notre Dame, Cal and Duke have all hosted him this spring as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, just a few days following Lopati\u2019s weekend trip to Michigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/recruiting-intel-four-star-qb-flip-prediction-as-michigan-surges-past-other-contenders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals\u2019 Steve Wiltfong<\/a> ($) has placed a flip prediction in favor of the Wolverines. Rivals\u2019 Adam Gorney also placed a prediction for Michigan to flip Lopati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor a lot of the spring it looked like the Irish were the biggest threat to flip him. Now the intel favors Michigan,\u201d Wiltfong wrote. \u201cLopati was in Ann Arbor last week. He has a great connection with the staff and likes the way the depth chart stacks up. Talking to sources I\u2019ve logged a prediction in favor of the Maize and Blue. Adam Gorney like Michigan too. He also forecasted the Wolverines on the Rivals Prediction Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lopati was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maizenbrew.com\/michigan-football-recruiting\/106516\/michigan-football-recruiting-quarterback-kamden-lopati-peter-bourque\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first quarterback the new coaching staff offered<\/a> following the decommitment of four-star Peter Bourque back in February. Whittingham and company have known him dating back to their days coaching at Utah, so it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if that familiarity has put Michigan ahead of the rest of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Lopati is still committed to Illinois as of this writing, Wiltfong said \u201cit\u2019s more likely he ends up elsewhere.\u201d And it sure sounds like Michigan is in the lead to land him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As a junior this past season, Lopati completed 114-of-176 passes for 2,671 yards, 34 touchdowns and eight interceptions. He also ran 90 times for 730 yards and 10 touchdowns. Lopati is ranked No. 9 at the quarterback position and No. 122 overall on Rivals\u2019 Industry Ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After visiting Ann Arbor this past weekend, the Michigan Wolverines are surging in the recruitment of 2027 four-star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,167544,167545,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-573048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting","10":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting-news","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}