Michigan QB Jack Grusser enters NCAA transfer portal

Michigan quarterback Jack Grusser has entered his name into the NCAA transfer portal, On3 has learned.

Grusser, a product of the 2023 recruiting class, was unranked coming out of high school, per the On3 Industry Ratings, which is a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services.

He did not record any stats for the Wolverines in his lone season in Ann Arbor.

Grusser was verbally committed to Harvard, but flipped his decision to play for Jim Harbaugh after attending a camp at Michigan after graduating. The Wolverine staff expressed wanting to add his talent to their roster for this past season, which was enough to say his decision.

“You know, I did a lot of hard thinking after my season as to what I truly wanted and what I truly wanted to do with my career,” Grusser told The Wolverine at the time of his commitment. “I’m entrusting myself and I believe in myself that I can play with the best. I feel like I was kind of under the radar originally, having not done a lot of camps and having an injury during my sophomore year. So I know I can compete with the best.”

The quarterback prospect would go on to accept a preferred walk on offer from the Wolverines over scholarship offers from schools such as Western Michigan, Army, UMass and UConn. He also had numerous FCS offers, including Yale, Penn and Columbia.

It also seems as though Harbaugh, who is now the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, was a major reason for his commitment.

“Just having a head coach who was once a quarterback himself and played the position for a very long time is great,” Grusser said in the same report. “(Harbaugh) likes what he likes and knows how to teach a quarterback. Having a head coach who’s been around quarterbacks for a very long time too is huge, honestly.

“Overall, it was just his belief in my ability. He believes that I can come in and compete and I believe that I can as well.”

Now, Grusser enters the transfer portal having earned a national championship ring during his lone season with Michigan. He has seen what it looks like at the peak of college football, and now he’ll look to take that knowledge and apply it to his next team, wherever that may be.