College football’s defending national champion is starting a zero star prospect at quarterback this season. So who is Michigan’s Davis Warren? The now senior QB’s journey starts all the way back in 2019. The spring of Warren’s junior year of high school, he was diagnosed with leukemia. He set a goal to play football that fall. But after months of chemotherapy, lost nearly 40 pounds. Against all odds, just five months after his diagnosis, he was able to take the field for his senior season. But that wouldn’t be the only adversity he’d face as Covid hit in 2020 and Warren had little game film to be recruited at a high level. But his trainers had connections with Michigan and then had coach Jim Harbaugh met with Warren in the fall of 2020, giving him the opportunity to join the program as a preferred walk on. By then, it had been nearly two years since Warren had seen game action. But he earned the opportunity to play scout team QB as a freshman, going up against future Nflers like Aiden Hutchinson, David Ajabo and Dax Hill in practice, winning Scout Team Player of the year. By 2022, Warren was seen the field in mop up duty and in 2023 earned himself a full scholarship. Heading into his senior season, Warren was an afterthought. Many assumed he was a transfer portal candidate, but he stuck around, never wavering, climbing his way up the depth chart and on Saturday started his first Football game in nearly five years.