We really only got to see limited warmups so we didn’t really get to see any ‘wow’ plays or anything like that. But Underwood definitely, from a stature perspective, is the most impressive-looking specimen in the room. He towers over the other QBs and the ball comes out of his hand fast.

What’s more, we saw Underwood fitting in really well — something that Steve Casula and Davis Warren both noted before practice. At first glance, you’d never think he had his first practice with the team just over a week ago.

This time last year, we were oohing and aahing over the Wolverines’ star freshman quarterback, Jadyn Davis, who has been seemingly forgotten in the mix. In part, it was because his mechanics needed to be broken down and retooled. He had something of a sidearm motion with a little bit of a hitch, but witnessing him a year later, he’s throwing with a much higher release and the hitch looks to be mostly resolved.

We weren’t there long enough to get a proper survey, but we did note that freshman offensive tackle Blake Frazier was in street clothes and not participating in practice. Likewise, early enrollee linebacker Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng wearing a shell, but didn’t seem to be participating in drills, either.

When we say impressive-looking here, we actually mean from a physical standpoint.

I had only seen wide receivers Jamar Browder and Andrew Marsh on the sidelines as recruits, thus they were wearing street clothes. Browder looked similar to Amorion Walker in terms of stature when we saw him on the sidelines, but now that he’s actually in pads, he’s a physically impressive wideout and certainly will give the Wolverines something that they’ve been missing in terms of size. Likewise, we’ve thought of Andrew Marsh as being a smaller, shifter receiver, but with the pads on, he looks more of the part of a potential high-caliber receiver as he’s somewhat in the middle of the taller types and the smaller ones (like Semaj Morgan).

We saw a few of his reps, including a zippy pass from Bryce Underwood, and he showed some deftness in route running as well as solid hands. Of course, it takes some time before freshman receivers become viable as early playmakers, but like Underwood, he just looks like he already belongs.

Sometimes it’s difficult to discern actual number changes when we get to these practices because there are multiple players wearing different jerseys as they’re a part of the scout team. But one notable change (as evidenced by the name plate) was wide receiver Amorion Walker, who came in wearing No. 1 but is now wearing No. 5.

Freshman Cole Sullivan is a bigger-bodied linebacker but watching him go through drills at the outset of practice, it was a little surprising to see how much quickness and speed he has. He’s someone to be on the look out for here in the not-so-distant future.

The last time we came to Tampa, in the first practice, we saw both Lane Kiffin and his now-late father, Monte Kiffin. This time around, another familiar face was milling around, but this one has Michigan ties, as former top-rated quarterback Drew Henson was on-hand checking out the action. We also caught Ferris State head coach Tony Annese mingling with some of the staff.