LOS ANGELES — Quarterback Jadyn Davis is one of the headliners of Michigan’s 2024 recruiting class, and Jim Harbaugh on Saturday made his first public comments about the incoming quarterback.
Davis enrolled early with the Wolverines and has been participating in practices in Los Angeles as U-M prepares for the Rose Bowl against Alabama. The four-star quarterback, a top-100 player per the 247Sports Composite, was a priority for Harbaugh and the Wolverines in this cycle and should add talent and depth to the QB for the next several years.
Harbaugh explained how Michigan identified Davis “pretty early” in the recruiting process and shared his first impressions of the young QB. Here’s what he said:
On how early Michigan identified Jadyn Davis and what stood out about him
JIM HARBAUGH: Pretty early. Pretty early. He’s a two-time Mr. Football in North Carolina. The thing that’s — we can talk a lot about what already happened, but the latest is being able to watch him on the field and get to coach him.
The thing that is sticking out is like one book — you give him a coaching point — like I’ve given him four now since he’s been here, and he gets it immediately. It is the next rep — he’s doing it exactly how I just explained it.
Just the intelligence, the athleticism it takes to do that I’ve found is rare, that you have that — you can understand something, and then athletically be able to just repeat — just go do it, as opposed to many reps, much time on task.
He’s got the ability to visualize what you’re saying and then athletic enough to immediately replicate it. That’s special. That’s something I’ve noticed immediately.
But a great guy. I’m so excited to coach him.
On the importance of Jadyn Davis reps as an early enrollee with Michigan
JIM HARBAUGH: I don’t know. I don’t know how important that is. But yeah, just jumping in and just watching how he handles himself, it’s kind of an important tool for me to see because you can tell — it’s like watching JJ, when JJ took the field for the first time.
Just the presence that he has and had, and to watch Jadyn do that, very interesting. How is he going to approach the first day. There it is. There’s the presence. There’s the genuine confidence. There’s the work ethic. There’s the humility. It’s great to see.
On the coaching points Jim Harbaugh has shared with Jadyn Davis
JIM HARBAUGH: His eyes on the target. When he throws a deep ball, quarterback has a tendency to lift their eyes up and watch the ball instead of keeping their eyes on the defender and the receiver the entire time.
Coached him on the snap. Like a lot of guys they don’t take a snap in high school, so getting that coached up.
There was a ball handling coaching point that I made, how to get away from center faster that he just immediately, immediately replicated.
One other I threw in a corner route that — he just can pick it up. When I say, listen, there’s a real art to that, like to listen, to really hear what the instruction is, and then be able to embrace the instruction and then to go execute the instruction.
But hear it, really hear it, embrace it wholeheartedly, and then go execute it to the best of your God-given ability. He’s got that talent to do all three.
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