After the #24 Michigan Wolverines‘ tough loss to the #22 Illinois Fighting Illini, 21-7, Head Coach Sherrone Moore seems to be getting to the end of his rope as far as his quarterback room is concerned.
The now 4-3 Michigan Wolverines seem to be reeling from the lack of consistent starting quarterback play and fans yearning for Dave Portnoy’s million-dollar NIL promises to come true.
To all Michigan fans I’m working on it
Tuttle in Trouble?
The former Indiana Hoosier, Jack Tuttle posted a decent stat line against the Fighting Illini despite the hard loss going 20/32 for 208 yards tallying one interception and a fumble. When questioned about the near future for Michigan’s starting quarterback, Sherrone shared his honest thoughts on the performance
“You don’t want to go to four quarterbacks. You don’t want to have to go through this process, but you got a guy that’s got to take care of the football, so we’ll see what we gotta do.”
Previous to Tuttle, Michigan had started redshirt junior Davis Warren and redshirt sophomore Alex Orji. Warren averaged a measly 148 YPG and only connected for two touchdowns through three starts. Orji didn’t quite cut it either, only starting twice and putting up a total of 148 yards in the air and 124 yards on the ground with three touchdowns and one interception. That leaves quarterbacks Anthony Arnou, a 6-2, 245-pound redshirt senior formerly from Fresno State, Jayden Denegal a 6-5, 235-pound redshirt sophomore, and 6-1, 205-pound true freshman Jadyn Davis to all potentially get into the mix of Michigan’s quarterback carousel.
The everchanging position for Michigan leaves more to be desired in the wake of the 2023-2024 CFP National Championship year as they’re now 4-3 facing a very tough rest of the year playing Michigan State, #1 Oregon, #13 Indiana, Northwestern, and finishing off the season in Colombus against #4 Ohio State.
Wolverines and Spartans Slated for 7:30pm On October 26
Sherrone and Wolverines staff will need to make a critical decision as Aidan Chiles and the Spartans look to come to Ann Arbor and rock the unstable boat that the National Championship defenders season has been after seven weeks.
Coach Moore plans to try and at the very least keep the turnovers balanced between the teams ahead of the Michigan State game. He was asked if he thinks the two teams are similar in the fact that the offenses both struggle to keep the ball at times. Sherrone remarked
“I mean as far as not taking care of the football you’d say so, but I just want us to be good, I want us to take care of the football oursleves. We’re not going to worry about what they’re doing and we’re going to try to take the football away from them, for sure, but for us we have to do everything we can to keep it.”
-Coach Sherrone Moore
Michigan State has to be feeling great with a nice momentum after a solid win against the former Michigan quarterback Cade McNamara’s Iowa Hawkeyes. For now, Michigan fans can only hope that Sherrone Moore and staff make the correct decisions and measures to maximize the potential that the maize and blue can offer come October 26.
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