Bryce Underwood has had a solid start to his college career at Michigan, but ESPN isn’t sold on the true freshman.

Bill Connelly, one of the outlet’s college football writers, ranked every Power Four team’s starting quarterback (or quarterback situations) on Wednesday. Underwood checked in at No. 38 out of 68.

“Underwood is mature, and he has a huge arm and strong fight-or-flight instincts -- he’s 38th in sack rate (3.8%) and seventh in yards per scramble (12.4),” Connelly wrote. “He’s also still learning the whole quarterbacking thing.

“He fires 99 mph fastballs when they aren’t necessary, and he has experienced bouts of inaccuracy (120th in completion rate). Improvement over Michigan’s 2024 QBs? Absolutely. Altogether good? Not quite yet.”

Per ESPN’s total QBR metric, Underwood ran

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