NCAA coaches are not permitted to speak about recruits until they sign letters of intent with their school, but multiple recruiting outlets have reported that Michigan, with the backing of boosters, has offered Underwood an NIL package upwards of $10.5 million in an effort to flip him from LSU.

A few years ago when Name, Image, and Likeness laws were first being introduced and changing the game of college football, then Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh stated he desired the Wolverines' NIL game to be "transformational,