I just know I got to just be myself,” Underwood told Rich Eisen. “I want to work for everything. I’m going to work for everything I have to earn.”

The Detroit native and star quarterback at nearby Belleville High School walks into an ideal situation at Michigan, which fielded one of college football’s worst offenses in the country in 2024 — weighed down by a bad passing offense that saw three different quarterbacks start games.

“A couple Heismans and at least one natty,” Underwood, the nation’s top recruit out of Belleville High, said on the show. The Heisman Trophy is awarded annually to the top player in college football and "natty" is a slang term for national championship.