Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood isn't a normal true freshman. At 6-4, 228 pounds, he already looks like a junior or senior. He's also got one of the livest arms in America. Throw in the fact that he's a high-level athlete who can really stress a defense with his legs, and the Wolverines truly have something special. 

Except, we haven't really seen Underwood use his legs yet at the college level.

His high school tape is littered with long, impressive and highly athletic runs. At his height, he glides over the turf with ease and really makes running look effortless. But through two games at Michigan, he's barely carried the ball at all. There have been almost no designed quarterback runs and Underwood, who truly does want to do damage from the pocket, hasn't broken out for many scrambles either.

Head coach Sherrone Moore was asked about that during Monday's press conference, and his answer wasn't very reassuring. 

"We will [turn him loose] at some point just — you run your quarterback, you better have two," Moore said. "And I’ve always believed that, even did that with JJ. He wanted to run every game. And I was like, 'No, you’re going to get hit, you’re going to get hurt.'

"We will, and I think there’s parts of that we tried to in that game, they just were pretty good at not letting us, cuz they didn’t want him to run. And I think there’s ways we can get him to run in different ways and make sure he’s protected. So we’ll work that as we go game by game and have a strategy for that."

To me, that's a lot of words of saying we're probably not really going to do it. If you don't do it in that Oklahoma game, I don't know when you're going to feel the need to do it. You're not going to do it against Central this weekend. And if you do, and it works, great. Underwood is going to be more athletic than most of the players they have on their team. 

Underwood is 6-4, 230 pounds, and one of the best quarterback recruits to come out of high school in a long time. He's playing football at Michigan. He might get tackled sometimes and I think that's okay. I don't understand the approach. There is a balance between using your quarterbacks skills and being reckless, but I just don't think you can create a game plan to try to avoid injury altogether and hope that Bryce doesn't get hurt every Saturday.

There's a reason why Underwood was the No. 1 recruit in the country coming out of high school. You can label him however you want, but he's plenty athletic enough to run it a lot. If he was in a system where running the ball with the quarterback was the go-to play, he could do it, but he's too good with his arm to do that. So Michigan really has the best of both worlds, but they're choosing not to use one of them. If the whole season goes by without Underwood being used as a runner multiple times throughout the course of a game, it's going to feel like a real waste of his talents and what he's able to do.

Sherrone Moore and Chip Lindsey have a Ferrari in the garage, but they're driving it like an Escort. That needs to change if Michigan is going to compete at the highest level in Underwood's rookie season.