4* DE/OLB Quintin Somerville (6'2, 230) of Arizona has committed to Michigan over Florida State and Stanford. He's ranked as the #150th overall prospect in the nation, the #14 SDE prospect, and the #3 player in the state of Arizona in the 247Composite rankings. Somerville's commitment pushes Michigan's recruiting class ranking up to #6 overall in the nation and #2 in the B1G in the 247Composite class rankings.
What's astounding to me is that if you play with 247's class calculator, and you added the big 4 in-state Michigan kids left to Michigan's current class in 5* DT Damon Payne, 4* RB Donovan Edwards, 4* OG Rocco Spindler, and 4* OT Garrett Dellinger- Michigan's class would be ranked #2 in the nation but would still be 22.75 points behind Ohio State's monster #1 in the nation class. And Ohio State is not done- they are still in on a lot of big-time prospects.
This is just play of course, as while Michigan leads for Edwards and maybe even Spindler, and the rumor mill is heating up that they might've re-taken the lead for Dellinger- they have zero shot in hell at 5* DT Damon Payne so long as the kid stays at Belleville- which by the way DT is by far the biggest position of need on that roster. Jim needs to either hope Payne transfers to IMG or he needs to get his ass over to Belleville and get on his hands and knees and apologize profusely to the coach there and do whatever it takes to mend fences. Payne is wide open, he wasn't really a football fan growing up so he doesn't have a favorite childhood team that tugs his heart strings, but his father is a diehard Michigan fan and really wants his son to go play there apparently.
The next prospects up that could drop for Michigan are 4* OT Garrett Dellinger (6-5, 280) of Clarkson, Michigan- the #79 player overall in the 247Composite, and 4* WR Cristian Dixon (6'2, 187) of Santa Ana, CA - the #210 player overall in the 247Composite.
Dellinger announces in 4 days, and rumors are he shot commitment videos for LSU and Michigan- so it's most definitely going to be one of those 2. Weeks ago it was all LSU, but now some insiders are saying Michigan hasn't given up and were just in contact with him yesterday and they feel they will land him. So we will see in about 4 days.
Dixon could announce at any moment, and the insidery guys all think he's a heavy lean to Michigan, and all of his recent CRYSTAL BALLZ have flooded in for Michigan.
