Cade McNamara Named Michigan’s Beginning QB over J.J. McCarthy, Alan Bowman

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh named Cade McNamara the crew’s beginning quarterback for the season-opener in opposition to Western Michigan on Saturday, per Austin Meek of The Athletic. 

“He is ratcheted it up in plenty of various areas,” Harbaugh stated Monday. “One of the best possible one is consistency.”

McNamara became on top of the depth chart after spring practices and beat out J.J. McCarthy and Alan Bowman for the beginning job, per Meek.

The redshirt sophomore looked in four video games last season, totaling 425 passing yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions.

McNamara burst onto the scene correct thru a contrivance-from-within the help of make a choice over Rutgers last season, totaling five touchdowns (along side one speeding) within the 48-42 victory. Michigan became trailing 17-0 early within the sport and looked discipline for a fourth straight loss within the help of Joe Milton earlier than the quarterback change.

That became ample for him to invent the launch in opposition to Penn Notify within the season finale, even when the quarterback done correct 12-of-25 for 91 yards in a 27-17 loss.

Michigan done 2-4 correct thru the shortened 2020 campaign, its first shedding season since Harbaugh took over 2015.

McNamara, the No. 7 pro-model passer within the 2019 class on 247Sports composite rankings, will seek for to expose things round in 2021.

There might per chance be silent plenty of hype surrounding McCarthy, who became a 5-star recruit and regarded because the No. 25 total player within the nation within the incoming freshman class. Bowman has the most skills of the neighborhood with 5,260 passing yards and 33 touchdowns across three seasons at Texas Tech earlier than transferring.

It supplies Michigan extra than one alternate choices this season if McNamara falters.