Michigan football injury updates: J.J. McCarthy, Ronnie Bell, more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Let the quarterback competitors at Michigan start once more.

Backup J.J. McCarthy, who was set to problem Cade McNamara for the beginning job within the spring, is ready to renew throwing once more on Monday, head coach Jim Harbaugh stated this week.

Showing on the “Within the Trenches” podcast, Harbaugh revealed to host and Michigan radio analyst Jon Jansen the timetable for his anticipated return.

“He’s set to begin throwing on Monday,” Harbaugh stated. “It’s nice information.”

Whereas particulars of McCarthy’s damage have been by no means revealed publicly, sources inform MLive the sophomore was coping with a nagging concern in his proper throwing shoulder. Michigan opted to restrict him throughout spring observe, instructing him to throw little or no with a purpose to permit it heal naturally.

“He took numerous reps in spring observe — he simply didn’t throw the ball,” Harbaugh stated.

Harbaugh characterised the 6-foot-3, 197-pound former five-star quarterback as “nonetheless the identical J.J.” in observe, “bringing all of the vitality, all of the aggressive hearth, all of the management.”

“Like a child within the sweet retailer,” Harbaugh quipped. “That’s one of the simplest ways to phrase what he’s like.”

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With McCarthy restricted, McNamara — who began all 14 video games for the Wolverines in 2021, main Michigan to a Massive Ten championship and Faculty Soccer Playoff berth — took all first-team reps and has a leg up heading into summer season exercises.

It additionally allowed walk-on Davis Warren to problem graduate switch Alan Bowman for the pivotal No. 3 position, a contest all of us noticed play out at Michigan’s spring recreation earlier this month.

If McCarthy can keep wholesome and no extra points along with his shoulder flare up, search for McNamara and McCarthy to duel for the beginning position in fall camp. Each gamers deliver completely different skillsets to the desk (one being a championship pedigree), setting the stage for an attention-grabbing lead as much as the season opener towards Colorado State on Sept. 3.

• In the meantime, receiver Ronnie Bell is nearing his return as nicely. Harbaugh stated on the podcast that Bell — sidelined within the season opener final September with an ACL damage — is “extra like weeks away from being full velocity.”

“He’s working. He’s beginning to minimize,” Harbaugh stated. “He’s actual shut. He’s nearly doing all the things that everyone else is doing. The rehab has been fabulous.”

Bell was sidelined throughout spring as he wrapped up rehab, however he remained an enormous a part of the staff. He was energetic in any respect practices and current on the sideline for the spring recreation, the place Massive Ten Community cameras caught him sprinting down the sideline to have a good time a Darrius Clemons landing.

“He’ll step proper in and probably be even stronger, quicker, higher than he was final yr,” Harbaugh stated.

Assuming there aren’t any setbacks, Bell might wind up being Michigan’s No. 1 choice at receiver, becoming a member of a packed place group that features returning starters Cornelius Johnson, Mike Sainristil and A.J. Henning, amongst others.

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• Tight finish Carter Selzer was restricted for a lot of the spring with a nagging hamstring damage, Harbaugh revealed.

“That obtained him on the primary day,” Harbaugh stated. “He tried to come back again and it simply nagged him the complete spring. However I talked to him (this week) and he’ll be again full velocity in per week or so.”

Selzer, a graduate pupil affectionately referred to as “The Sheriff,” caught one go for six yards whereas enjoying in all 14 video games final season, primarily as a blocking tight finish and on particular groups.

He returns as a part of one other crowded place group, the tight ends, that features two actual choices to begin (Erick All, Luke Schoonmaker) together with sixth-year senior Joel Honigford.

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