Michigan offense believes turnover woes are fixable as Bryce Underwood continues to grow

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For Michigan football in 2025, once one thing is fixed, another seems to break. One of the big issues all season has been wide receiver drops. But, just as those started to dwindle, quarterback Bryce Underwood appeared to be on the wrong page with his pass protection — thus having happy feet and becoming more inaccurate. That was seemingly fixed this past weekend, but then Underwood turned the ball over twice in the pass game and also had a bad handoff to running back Bryson Kuzdzal, resulting in a fumble and turnover on fourth down.

Even so, the Michigan offense is confident that these things will all be fixed and that the attack on that side of the ball will still be able to put together a complete game this year.

"Obviously, we saw a bunch of turnovers, and that's not just on offense," redshirt sophomore tight end Deakon Tonielli said. "But, I mean, cleaning that stuff up will obviously make the game look a lot different. Just having more opportunities on offense and capitalizing on that, I mean, it's going to be huge for us. And then just holding on to the ball for us is going to help us, because the other team won't have it."

The turnover issues stem back to the previous game against Purdue, when Underwood had two more, both within the five-yard line. Is it bad luck? Is it something fundamentally wrong?

Tonielli doesn't believe that it was bad luck, per se, but he does think that these are fixable issues that will soon be fixed.

"I don't think there's any luck involved in football," Tonielli said. "I think it's a mix of game planning, scheming, matchups. They got us a couple times on the RPOs. That'll happen. But Bryce is a great player. He's still young. He's going to have a lot of time to develop. But, I don't think it's luck or anything. It's just teams knowing what they're doing, and teams doing a good job game planning.

"But, I mean, I'm not worried. And I think Bryce will clean everything up. And it's not — they're in the quarterback's room talking about it every day. And they know that they kind of can't let those things happen."

Underwood and the Michigan football offense will have one more chance before Ohio State to fix the issues plaguing it, with a trip to Maryland on Saturday with a 4 p.m. EST kickoff in College Park.

This article originally appeared on Wolverines Wire: Underwood turnovers remain concern, but Michigan confident in fixes

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