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Everything will look anew in Ann Arbor in 2024 following the big national championship win this past season.
Many of the star players from last year are gone, and it’s an entirely new coaching staff, led by former offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore. Only one on-field coaching staff member is in the same position as he was a year ago (wide receivers coach Ron Bellamy). Otherwise, there are a lot of new faces as well as familiar faces in new roles.
While Kirk Campbell was elevated from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator, he’ll still oversee the passers. But he has to find a new man to lead the maize and blue under center as J.J. McCarthy is NFL-bound. There are plenty of options to choose from, but no obvious choice as to who will be the starter next year.
CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson took a look at the situation at quarterback in Ann Arbor and diagnosed the room and how he thinks the competition may go.
Contenders: Jayden Denegal, Alex Orji, Jadyn Davis, Jack Tuttle, Davis Warren
The first spring practices of the post-Jim Harbaugh era includes a spotlight on first-year coach Sherrone Moore and his plans to handle the quarterback position. Having already imprinted his “SMASH” motto as his theme, it’s a good bet that Michigan will once again be a team that’s built around dominance at the line of scrimmage rather than a finesse game which requires more from the quarterback. But, that does not lessen the importance of the position because J.J. McCarthy’s excellence in doing exactly what Michigan needed him to do is how the Wolverines rolled off the last two Big Ten titles and won the national championship in 2023. Our expectation is that Denegal, a 6-4, pro-style quarterback out of California represents one stylistic option for Moore and offensive coordinator Kirk Campbell. Orji, meanwhile,…
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Author : Wolverines Wire
Publish date : 2024-03-31 18:13:05
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