Brandon Peters
| Michigan Wolverines – No. 18 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class |  Freshman |
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| Born: | October 15, 1997 |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| High school | Avon (IN) |
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Michael Brandon Peters (born October 15, 1997) is an American football quarterback who should be starting for the University of Michigan football team.
High school career
Peters played high school football and basketball at Avon High School in Indiana. As a senior in 2015, he led Avon to a regional football championship,[1] appearing in 13 games and completing 218 of 363 passes for 3,103 yards, 37 touchdowns, and only five interceptions.[2] In December 2015, The Indianapolis Star selected him as its Mr. Football for the 2015 season.[3] He was also named the Gatorade Player of the Year in Indiana.[2] He participated in the Elite 11 quarterback event in July 2015,[4] and he was rated by ESPN as the No. 5 quarterback in the class of 2016 and the No. 60 overall player in the 2016 ESPN 300.[5]
University of Michigan
In April 2015, Peters committed to play college football at the University of Michigan.[6][7] He enrolled early at Michigan in January 2016. In February 2016, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh compared Peters to Andrew Luck, noting that "I saw a lot of similar things in Brandon—a natural player, not over-coached or over-mechanized."[8] 2016 Spring practice began on February 29 with a highly anticipated quarterback battle between redshirt sophomore Wilton Speight, redshirt junior John O'Korn, redshirt junior Shane Morris, true freshman Peters and redshirt freshman Alex Malzone.[9][10] As Spring practice wound down in late March, Speight, O'Korn and Morris seemed to be the leading three,[11] in that order.[12]
On September 3 before the opening game against Hawaii, Speight was named as the starting quarterback.[13]
In 2017, Peters was engaged in a quarterback battle with incumbent starter Wilton Speight and 2016 backup John O'Korn. On August 12, 2017, Jim Harbaugh revealed that Speight and O'Korn are the leaders in the quarterback battle, with Peters designated to a back-up role.
References
- ^ Aaron McMann (November 11, 2015). "Recruiting roundup: 2016 Michigan QB commit Brandon Peters leads Avon to regional title". Mlive.com.
- ^ a b Kyle Neddenriep (December 3, 2015). "Avon's Brandon Peters wins Gatorade Player of the Year".
- ^ Kyle Neddenriep (December 10, 2015). "Avon QB Brandon Peters named 2015 IndyStar Mr. Football". The Indianapolis Star.
- ^ Tom Van Haaren (July 6, 2015). "Brandon Peters has a big target at The Opening". ESPN.com.
- ^ "2016 ESPN 300". ESPN.com. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ "Four-star quarterback Brandon Peters commits to Michigan". Sports Illustrated. April 4, 2015.
- ^ Mark Snyder (April 4, 2015). "Four-star QB Brandon Peters commits to Michigan". Detroit Free Press.
- ^ Nick Baumgardner (February 5, 2016). "Jim Harbaugh sees young Andrew Luck traits in Brandon Peters, but QB just trying to be himself". Mlive.com.
- ^ Kercheval, Ben (2016-02-24). "Who Has the Edge in Michigan's Quarterback Battle?". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Baumgardner, Nick (2016-02-22). "John O'Korn, Shane Morris, someone else? Michigan's QB 'cage match' set to begin". MLive.com. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Baumgardner, Nick (2016-03-26). "Wilton Speight, John O'Korn, Shane Morris are Michigan's top QBs, but no one has pulled away". MLive.com. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Baumgardner, Nick (2016-03-29). "Michigan's top three QBs all want to start, but say the competition is far from over". MLive.com. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Foltin, Lindsey (2016-09-03). "Jim Harbaugh had a strange way of pumping up Michigan's new QB". FOX Sports. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
