{"id":868614,"date":"2026-04-17T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:46:30","slug":"bryce-underwoods-status-for-michigan-spring-game-is-clarified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868614\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Underwood&#8217;s status for Michigan spring game is clarified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/gbmwolverine.com\/michigan-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Michigan football <\/a>spring game is on Saturday and we finally got some clarity on the status of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/bryce-underwood-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Underwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gbmwolverine.com\/kyle-whittingham-is-setting-bryce-underwood-up-for-success-with-grueling-spring-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Whittingham <\/a>revealed earlier this <a href=\"https:\/\/gbmwolverine.com\/kyle-whittingham-reveals-why-bryce-underwood-will-reach-his-immense-potential\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">week<\/a> that the spring game was going to be more of a showcase for the younger players. He said that the starters would mostly get rested. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">Whittingham didn&#8217;t clarify if Bryce Underwood was among them. He&#8217;s obviously a returning starter, but is also a young player who could use more snaps. The snaps he&#8217;s gotten all spring probably aren&#8217;t going to be any different, so it&#8217;s probably not a huge shock that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealTonyGarcia\/status\/2045195684773519509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tony Garcia of the Detroit Free Press<\/a> is reporting that Underwood won&#8217;t play on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Bryce Underwood won&#8217;t play in Michigan spring game<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">The 6-foot-4 freshman quarterback played most of the snaps last year in the Michigan spring game. He needed the experience, though. Underwood now has a year&#8217;s worth of starting experience.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">There were ups and downs as a freshman, but Underwood completed 60 percent of his passes last season and had 17 total touchdowns. He also averaged 218 total yards per game. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">It would have been fun to see Underwood operating in the new offensive system with Jason Beck calling the plays, but surely, the new coaching staff is guarding against injury. Besides, they have had an entire spring to evaluate Underwood. Expect to see a lot of Tommy Carr, an early enrollee who is already making a push for the backup job. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gbmwolverine.com\/kyle-whittingham-gushes-about-bryce-underwood-who-is-on-the-right-track\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">By all accounts,<\/a> things have <a href=\"https:\/\/gbmwolverine.com\/kyle-whittingham-gushes-about-bryce-underwood-who-is-on-the-right-track\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gone well.<\/a> There are still going to be some growing pains from time-to-time. Think of J.J. McCarthy when he was a sophomore. That should be the expectation this season, with a higher volume of runs for Underwood, who is supposed to be unleashed this season as a runner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow gbmwolverine.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=gbmwolverine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan football spring game is on Saturday and we finally got some clarity on the status of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-868614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116421776376880062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}