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This sounds unbelievable, so I decided to do some research....Regardless of where his career goes, McNamara has more touchdowns at Michigan than any Michigan quarterback recruited by Harbaugh and he only has 1 career start.
So it's QB-U then?This sounds unbelievable, so I decided to do some research....
Fact check: MOSTLY TRUE
Harbaugh has recruited seven quarterbacks to Michigan. Here's the list, in order, with year signed in parentheses, followed by career passing TDs:
Zach Gentry (2015): 0
Alex Malzone (2015): 0
Brandon Peters (2016): 4
Dylan McCaffrey (2017): 3
Joe Milton (2018): 5
Cade McNamara (2019): 5
Dan Villari (2020): 0
6 years, 7 quarterbacks, 17 TDs. Let that sink in.... Quarterback whisperer, indeed!
Here's a look at Harbaugh's other quarterbacks:
He inherited Wilton Speight, who threw for 22 TDs in parts of 3 seasons (2015-2017).
Jake Rudock transferred in 2015 and threw for 20 TDs that year before graduating.
John O'Korn also transferred into Michigan, and he had a grand total of 4 TDs in two seasons (2016 & 2017), to go along with 6 INTs.
Shea Patterson was the most successful transfer, and he threw for 45 TDs in two seasons (2018 & 2019). By way of comparison, Dwayne Haskins threw for 50 TDs in 2018 alone.
Fun fact: In 2017, Michigan had just 9 passing TDs in 13 games (Peters 4; Speight 3; O'Korn 2).
Nice work, but you missed one:because I was curious, a comparison....
2012: Cardale Jones - 15 tds (plus another 4 rushing tds)
2013: J.T. Barrett - 104 tds (plus another 43 rushing tds)
2014: Stephen Collier - 0 td
2015: Torrance Gibson - 0 td
Joe Burrow - 2 tds (plus another 1 rushing td) - I think he did ok somewhere else though......
2016: Dwayne Haskins - 54 tds (plus another 4 rushing tds)
2017: Tate Martell - 1 td (plus another 2 rushing tds)
2018: Matthew Baldwin - 0 td
2019: Jagger LaRoe (Transfer from Texas A&M) - 0 td
Gunner Hoak (Transfer from Kentucky) - 1 td
Justin Fields (Transfer from Georgia) - 54 tds (plus another 13 rushing tds)
2020: C.J. Stroud - 0 td
Jack Miller - 0 td
Nice work, but you missed one:
Chris Chugunov (transfer from West Virginia): threw for 6 TDs in 2019 ... which is more than any of Harbaugh's recruits has so far.
Chugunov: 6
McNamara: 5
Milton: 5
Peters: 4
McCaffrey: 3
Malzone: 0
Gentry: 0
Villari: 0