Bryce Underwood Looks Like the QB Everyone’s Been Waiting For

Risking to live in hyperbole, and to repeat the same mistake which we have committed with so many young players, mistakes upon which we are living now, it is impossible not to be watching quarterback Bryce Underwood, and to be in utter and total awe.

Fugit servitium suum Saturday Nebraska. Stir up a box score the other way or another you drop the ploughshare. Actually, it is what it is this year; freshman year of an unbelievably gifted player in an overhauled roster in a big time conference.

Indeed, it’s early. Very early. It is premature to claim that the future of college football has been found in a 18-year-old who completed his high school last month.

It is also an unwarranted snipe to uncork since, in most occasions, these claims are outrageously false. To prove this at a glance, one only needs to look at the treatment of the 2025 on Arch Manning and DJ Lagway who are the quarterbacks.

In Week 3 one was even booed by his hometown crowd. The other committed five interceptions. It can be said that there have never been two players that were more hyped this offseason.

Hiring stars, physical gifts and good old fashion buzz are not always guaranteed to bring instant success. However, in the case of Bryce Underwood who owns all of this, then it would be outrageous to see him eventually being anything short of a superstar.

In that regard, it is not difficult to understand why he was the unanimity best recruit in the nation last cycle. It is even simpler to comprehend why Michigan is said to have offered him a $10 million NIL deal that made him switch his allegiance to LSU and Wolverines.

In the light of the sheer ineptitude of several of the most overtly hyped quarterbacks in the country to date, it has never been a worse time to make such a pronouncement. However, occasionally, even after 3 games, the player and the flashes are so spectacular, it is impossible not to think of how glamorous he would be at some point.

The identical words were being said about wideout Jeremiah Smith a year ago at the same time of the year. The real freshman appeared through the gate in the Buckeyes, and looked as good as the finest of the esteemed staff at the position, after two or three weeks.

Since that time Smith has only confirmed these judgements. The fact that he had nine catches, caught 153 yards and scored two touchdowns against Ohio last weekend was no more than a confirmation.

He is no longer the best wideout, that is presupposed. He could be the most suitable all round player.

The projection of a wide receiver and a quarterback is quite different now. Actually, it may not be a more difficult task to forecast the development of a young talent in the position.

He is the exception. Plain and simple.

The way he moves. The way he throws. The mechanics. The feel. The confidence. The size. The arm. Had you been questioned to purchase stock in any quarterback in the country, he would have answered in the affirm.

Bryce Underwood has had an average start statistically. He has scored 4 touchdowns and a single interception in three games and has passed 57 percent of his passes.

The Wolverines made use of him as a runner against Central Michigan in Week, however, and were instant success. His nine carries accumulated to 114 yards, and this was a preview of what is yet to happen.

It is the flashes in these three games that there should be optimism. Bryce Underwood is a 6’4″ and almost 230-pound player who already has an NFL body and arm. His movements are fluid though he is massive and powerful.

Had you decided physically to make a quarterback, he would have resembled them a great deal.

Former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said after losing to Michigan that he would not pump the brakes on Bryce Underwood because he would become fantastic. “I love this player. His liberty, his all appears wonderful.

He will have to develop and refine all of his tools and that will require time and patience. We are not especially good at this part and such stories do not assist.

The trick will be to just permit the hype and development to somehow exist together but this is not something that Manning was able to enjoy during his first year as a starter. Texas made the best it could of getting him oriented, as he had been the understudy two seasons.

Nevertheless, Longhorns have tried their level best, the chaos has become the order of the day. The fact that they began the season as the number one in the country did not help either.

The reality that Michigan started the year with a humble rating and the team has a reconstructed roster has toned down anticipations. It was also expected that Bryce Underwood would not win the team out of the gate and the expectations have largely been quite reasonable.

Those anticipations will change in the not far away future and this is why working with him now, under conditions as those he will work in on Saturday, should yield huge profits in the future.

He will struggle. This year, he will lose, possibly not even until this weekend. At some point, he will appear to be a real freshman. Even the good ones–the very best ones of all–so often do.

Yet, Bryce Underwood will also be brilliant. Instead, he will at least appear in little doses to be the best quarterback in the country.

We may not be ready to give hype to any player with what we have witnessed in the last month particularly in this position, but we need not worry. The future superstar quarterback in college football has come, whether we are ready to admit it now or not.