Michigan football quarterback competition to extend into season

The Michigan soccer workforce’s quarterback competitors will formally prolong into the season. 

Senior Cade McNamara will begin subsequent Saturday’s season-opener towards Colorado State, whereas sophomore J.J. McCarthy will draw the beginning in Week 2 towards Hawaii, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh announced Saturday night. After that, Harbaugh mentioned, a choice can be made as to who’s the starter and who’s the backup. 

“We’ve decided,” Harbaugh mentioned within the Within the Trenches podcast. “Each quarterbacks have performed nice – accomplished the whole lot they might have and, in each method, to win the beginning job. Popping out of camp, I simply really feel like now we have two quarterbacks, Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy, that we really feel very assured that we will win a championship with both of these two behind middle. 

“It’s a fantastic factor for our workforce however there’s just one ball and just one quarterback will be on the market at a time. So we’re not able to say who that beginning quarterback is, however the choice that now we have made is Cade McNamara will begin the opener towards Colorado State and J.J. McCarthy will begin the second ball sport towards Hawaii, after which after week two we are going to decide going into week three on the starter and backup.”

All through fall camp, gamers and coaches have repeatedly insisted that the competitors is neck-and-neck. Harbaugh’s announcement validates that.

McNamara, the incumbent, steered Michigan to its greatest season in a long time final yr, profitable a Huge Ten Championship and securing the Wolverines’ first ever berth within the Faculty Soccer Playoff. He was additionally appointed one in all 5 workforce captains on Thursday.

But McCarthy — who entered this system as an uber-talented freshman and performed in sure packages final season — has stored McNamara’s job safety tenuous. Although he was slowed by a shoulder damage within the offseason, he has returned in fall camp and evidently accomplished sufficient to benefit a protracted quarterback competitors, one which extends into the season.