With summer workouts in high gear, Michigan football is not done adding to its 2025 roster.
And this time, the Wolverines are bringing in another quarterback.
Veteran signal caller Jake Garica, a fifth-year graduate student who made six starts at East Carolina last season, signed with Michigan on Monday, the program announced.
Garcia, who reportedly took a visit to Michigan last week, is on his fourth school in five years, an ever-increasing situation in the age of the transfer portal and name, image and likeness in college athletics.
Prior to ECU, Garcia spent one season at Missouri, where he did not play, and two seasons at the University of Miami in Florida.
Garcia threw for 1,425 yards and eight touchdowns last season at East Carolina, but he also tossed 12 interceptions and eventually lost the starting job. He threw for 308 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions in a season-opening win over Norfolk State, then followed it up a week later with a 283-yard, four-interception performance in a tight win over Old Dominion.
Listed at 6-foot-3 and 203 pounds, Garcia appeared in nine games at Miami, where he combined to throw for 950 yards, seven touchdowns and four interceptions. He played in one game as a true freshman in 2021 before suffering a season-ending ankle injury. He returned in 2022 and made one start before eventually departing.
Native of southern California, Garcia starred at Grayson High School in Loganville, Georgia, where he threw for nearly 6,000 yards and more than 50 touchdowns. He earned a four-star ranking from the recruiting services, who considered Garcia one of the top high-school quarterbacks in the country in 2021, while amassing nearly two-dozen scholarship offers from some of the top college football programs in America like Alabama, Auburn and USC.
Garcia arrives at Michigan likely vying for a backup role. Freshman Bryce Underwood and graduate transfer Mikey Keene, an accomplished veteran with 35 college starts under his belt, are expected to dual for the starting job in fall camp.
The Wolverines also have three other scholarship quarterbacks on the roster: Senior Davis Warren, sophomore Jadyn Davis and freshman Chase Herbstreit.
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