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The Alex Orji Corollary: Can Michigan football win big in 2024 without a true passing threat?

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After Big Ten Media Days and a week of fall camp, the offseason quarterback battle between Davis Warren, Jack Tuttle, and Alex Orji remains undecided at Michigan. Regardless of who wins the job, the offense is going to be operating at a fundamentally different frequency than last year when the situation was more locked in than Keenan Thompson to his spot on SNL.

If you poll the fanbase, ask your uncle, or just walk around Ann Arbor for a little while, the name you are almost certainly going to hear come up first is Alex Orji. A specimen of an athlete that is built like an excavator but moves like an ocelot, the 6-foot-3, 240-pounder offers a unique challenge to opposing defenses with his size, speed and ability to truck-stick a defender into the shadow realm.