Michigan Football: 3 storylines to follow this spring and beyond

Michigan football is about two weeks away from holding its spring game and here are three storylines to follow this offseason. 

The Michigan football team had a banner year in 2021. The Wolverines won the Big Ten championship, beat Ohio State, and reached the College Football Playoff.

Michigan also won 12 games for the first time since 1997 and outside of the loss to Michigan State, it was basically a perfect season.

Now the question is can the Wolverines continue that success? Can they beat Michigan State? Can they beat the Buckeyes again, this time in Columbus?

Jim Harbaugh made things interesting this spring when he tested the NFL waters and interviewed with the Minnesota Vikings for their head coaching job. But Harbaugh is back and with spring football in full tilt, here are three storylines to follow for Michigan football.

Who’s going to be the QB?

The quarterback competition between Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy is the No. 1 topic of conversation surrounding the Wolverines.

McCarthy is the five-star freshman, while McNamara is the proven winner. He’s said he’s the returning Big Ten championship starter and that’s how he’s approaching this offseason.

McCarthy also isn’t 100 percent right now. He has been nursing a shoulder injury since the Orange Bowl and is using this spring to rest as much as anything.

That gives McNamara extra reps this spring and that might give him another leg up in the effort to fend off McCarthy. That being said, it will be even harder to keep McCarthy off the field in 2022 and as the season goes on, he should play more and more.

The old saying is that you if you have two quartebacks, you don’t have one, but for now at least and last season, Michigan won playing two and I don’t see that changing.