College football is six months away, but ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit is already excited about what’s to come this fall especially regarding Michigan Wolverines quarterback Bryce Underwood.
Herbstreit recently appeared on “Crain & Cone”” to discuss the quarterback landscape in and around college football. Despite Underwood having to learn under a new offensive regime, he said this will only help Underwood take his talent to the next level.
“I think he’s going to have a massive jump, you would expect,” Herbstreit said. “There are times when, if you’re just evaluating him, you have to be careful of just walking away with really concrete thoughts of a guy that’s playing as an 18-year-old and an offense that would take two steps forward, one step back. They didn’t really have any receivers… I think he’s going to kind of take off this offseason. I think they’re going to have an offseason to study him and where his sweetspot is, where he can really play well.”
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Herbstreit said Underwood’s ceiling hasn’t been reached yet, as his son has relayed to him how much Underwood has continued to grow.
“My own son cannot say enough good things about him,” Kirk Herbstreit said of Underwood through Chase Herbstreit. “Which tells me a lot about the way the locker room feels about him and his work ethic and his approach to his job. Which, I love.”
There is still much to be decided about Underwood’s career in Ann Arbor. But, for now, his potential seems limitless.
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