Michigan spent Sherrone Moore’s first season at the helm without a quarterback, shuffling between Davis Warren, Jack Tuttle, and Alex Orji. So, the program loaded up the money cannon to keep the No. 1 QB in the 2025 high school class, Bryce Underwood, home.
Then, after handing Underwood a $12 million multi-year contract to be the quarterback of the Wolverines, Moore set him up for failure. After not having a quarterback in 2024, the Wolverines didn’t have a quarterback coach for Underwood in 2025, something that Kyle Whittingham was perplexed by when he took over the program this offseason.