Michigan's roster on the official website is getting slowly updated today. We still don't know the new RT, but either way the OL will be big and experienced (returning starters in black). Michigan's OL coach (Warriner) is being described -- from interviews -- as far more smiley than this time last summer:
MICHIGAN
6'5" - 321 Runyan
6'5" - 325 Bredeson
6'4" - 319 Ruiz
6'3" - 350 Onwenu
6'7" - 334 Steuber
6'4.8" - 329.8 AVG
Orrrrrrrr...
MICHIGAN
6'5" - 321 Runyan
6'5" - 325 Bredeson
6'4" - 319 Ruiz
6'3" - 350 Onwenu
6'5" - 319 Mayfield
6'4.5" - 326.8 AVG
Fans are hoping/expecting Mayfield. He's younger, was a bigger recruit and may have the group's best foot speed/balance. He and Stueber are going into camp tied. I'm not sure I have a rooting interest (except, if it's a tie, for it to go to the young guy). Mostly, I'm just excited by the starters as well as by the fact that for the first time since ... maybe 2000 (with Backus, Hutchinson, Brandt, Goodwin, Williams) Michigan has both an excellent starting line and what looks like excellent position-for-position depth behind them.
It feels great to have turned that corner (starting *and* back-up quality on the offensive line). Perhaps no positional kind of highest end play changes a teams destiny as positively as it can when that highest end play comes from the OL.