{"id":621056,"date":"2026-05-03T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:01:25","slug":"michigan-qb-bryce-underwood-long-ways-to-go-but-on-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621056\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan QB Bryce Underwood ‘long ways to go, but on right path’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 season is a big one for Michigan Wolverines football<\/a> sophomore quarterback Bryce Underwood<\/a>, who has 13 starts under his belt, tremendous upside but a lot of room for growth. Head coach Kyle Whittingham<\/a> plans to unlock that potential beginning this year, after Underwood completed 60.3 percent of his throws for 2,428 yards and 11 touchdowns with 9 interceptions and ran for 392 yards and 6 scores in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, Bryce was thrown into a pretty tough situation last fall \u2014\u00a0a true freshman, 18 years old, starting quarterback at not only a P4 program but Michigan,\u201d Whittingham said on \u2018The Blueprint\u2019 podcast<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re under the spotlight, also didn\u2019t have a dedicated quarterbacks coach last year, from what I was told. So, he was a little rough around the edges, still is a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Offensive coordinator Jason Beck<\/a> is also the quarterbacks coach, but Michigan has analyst Koy Detmer Jr.<\/a> working with the position, too. Detmer is a former BYU quarterback who\u2019s new to coaching, entering his third year as an FBS analyst.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines are seeing the 6-foot-4, 228-pound Underwood make strides throughout the offseason, despite the tough performance in the first quarter of Michigan\u2019s spring game April 18, where the Detroit native went 3-of-9 passing for 22 yards with 2 \u2018sacks.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou talk about spring ball, but long before that \u2014\u00a0January, February \u2014\u00a0we were in the film room and talking him through mechanics and footwork and read progressions and all that,\u201d Whittingham said. \u201cIt continued through spring. He has made progress. Still got a long ways to go, but he\u2019s on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whittingham noted that Michigan was working on installing the offense at large and will whittle it down as time goes on, playing to Underwood\u2019s strengths. Running the football is one of the areas he\u2019s proven adept at, for example \u2014\u00a0and that wasn\u2019t something he was able to show in the spring game, since he wasn\u2019t live to tackle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be very important this summer that he continues to work,\u201d the Michigan coach continued. \u201cAnd one thing about Bryce, he\u2019s got a great work ethic. There\u2019s no worry about him putting in the time. He\u2019s going to put in all the time he needs, and he\u2019s completely dedicated to his craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019re still finding out \u2014\u00a0we\u2019ve got a much better, clearer picture through spring ball \u2014\u00a0what he does well, what suits him, what aspects of the offense are his strong suits. We\u2019ll start to gravitate towards that as we move closer to the season. Expose him to everything this spring, but we got to know him a lot better and we\u2019ll continue to move and evolve the offense in a direction that really suits what he does best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 season is a big one for Michigan Wolverines football sophomore quarterback Bryce Underwood, who has 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1374,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-621056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bryce-underwood-25-belleville-high-school","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621056","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=621056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}