2025 Michigan Offseason Thread

[MikeDeTiger]

How many of those A+ DLs are coming back and how many are gone/out of eligibility?

[Mdot21]

How many of those A+ DLs are coming back and how many are gone/out of eligibility?

DT Mason Graham already declared and is off to the top 10 of the NFL draft. EDGE Josiah Stewart is out of eligibility and off to probably the late 1st or 2nd rd.

EDGE rushers TJ Guy & Derrick Moore are coming back for their SR years. DT Rayshaun Benny is coming back for his 5th year.

Still waiting on word from NT Kenneth Grant. Rumors circling that they are trying to put together a massive NIL package to get him back for his SR year and he's listening. They get him back that'd be a coup. He's not Mason Graham good but he's pretty fucking good.

[Mdot21]

former Georgia LB RS Frosh Troy Bowles signs with Michigan from the porthole, he has 3 years of eligibility remaining. Troy Bowles was rated as the #80 player overall and #6 LB in the class of 2023. He is the son of Tampa Bay Bucs head coach Todd Bowles.


https://twitter.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1870529890203898357

[MrNubbz]

How many snaps did he get this season

[Mdot21]

How many snaps did he get this season

don't think any, he redshirted this year, got snaps last year as a true frosh. idk if he had injuries, was in the dog house, or Jawjaw just fucking LOADED at LB (newsflash: they are) or a combo of those 3.

talented player who is only a RS Frosh and was a blue chip recruit out of HS with 3 years left, I'll take it. Michigan is returning Jaishawn Barham, Ernest Hausmann, and Jimmy Rolder at LB and bringing in Bowles and still going after their #1 LB portal target Khmori House from Washington who also just finished his freshman season and will have 3 years of eligibility remaining as well.

Gotta keep the defense stocked. Need to find some DT's in the porthole now...

[Mdot21]

Dante Moore and CJ Carr were really, really good in-state QB prospects but Bryce Underwood was just on a completely different level in terms of raw physical talent and HS production. Generational talent. He was the one they couldn't miss on and had to do everything and anything to get- and they did. Was bitching on this board for 2-3 years about Jeem fucking the Underwood recruitment all up. Well, Sherrone fixed that.

BY FAR the best QB prospect to come out of the state in almost 30 years since Drew Henson in the 1998 class. can't ever remember being so hype for a player coming into Michigan since....Drew Henson. Last #1 overall player they signed was in 2016 with Rashan Gary but this is on an entirely different level considering Underwood is a hometown kid and plays QB.

I think the only QB in the porthole they could've signed that would've held him off was the kid from Washington State who signed with Oklahoma. VERY weak porthole QB class....anyone else besides that kid they sign would've been a bridge player who Bryce eventually takes over for at some point in the season imo.


https://twitter.com/BryceUnderwoo16/status/1870970627403698608

[Mdot21]

Michigan lands Fresno State QB Mikey Keene in the porthole. Will be a 5th year senior. Not thrilled about it, was hoping for more but realistically I don't think very many QB's want to come and be a 1 year stop gap veteran "teach Bryce Underwood and get him ready to take your job" guy. Having said that he's LIGHT years better than what they had in Davis Warren and Alex Orji.

If Davis Warren stays this pushes him to 4th string kinda where he belongs....provided Jadyn Davis doesn't just bail after spring ball that is.


https://twitter.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1871252011636973715

[Mdot21]

Justice Haynes, 5* #1 RB from the 2023 class. Leaving BAMA, apparently has committed to Michigan out of the porthole.

Haynes & Marshall sounds like a law firm.


https://youtu.be/IoPb9_pVaik?si=UtI0QCN0vmKHcaD7

[Mdot21]

Jadyn Davis says he's not going anywhere and is going to compete for that starting job in spring ball. Like the attitude but we'll see if he actually follows through....

First look of his main competition, 5* #1 player overall #1 QB Bryce Underwood at bowl practices...

Jadyn Davis looks like a HS kid next to Underwood which is crazy cause Underwood just graduated high school early like a couple weeks ago and is only 17. Underwood looks taller and nearly as big as Alex Orji- who is remaining with the team through the bowl even though he's in the porthole....and Alex Orji is a big mf and like 20 or 21....not 17.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yr8RInhvNQ

[Temp430]

I’m thinking Michigan may still take another portal QB with 1 year left at some point if that QB is highly talented.

[Mdot21]

I’m thinking Michigan may still take another portal QB with 1 year left at some point if that QB is highly talented.

who else are they going to get right now? just don't see it. they actually might need one in the spring window because Jadyn Davis is done here imo. He'll compete in spring ball he says but he's long gone after spring imo. If Jadyn Davis couldn't get any run in that bowl game after enrolling early and participating in 15 bowl practices last year, all of spring ball practices, all of fall camp practices, then going through a full season and another 15 bowl practices....he ain't ever playing at Michigan. He must really really suck.

[Mdot21]

Michigan schedule sets up nicely next year and the defense and special teams should still be rock solid. 

OL should be a little bit better next year one would think, Jordan Marshall & Justice Haynes is going to be a really nice 1-2 RB duo, and can't see them being any worse at QB than they were this year after adding Mikey Keene in the porthole and of course signing the #1 QB and #1 player Bryce Underwood.

[ELA]

Tre Williams is a MASSIVE pull from the portal, particularly considering how $$$ interior DL are going for

[Mdot21]

Tre Williams is a MASSIVE pull from the portal, particularly considering how $$$ interior DL are going for

Michigan interior DL looked great vs Bama in the bowl game with Rayshaun Benny, Enow Etta, and Trey Pierce getting majority of the snaps. Adding Tre Williams & Damon Payne to that rotation really helps fill it out. 

They are losing 3 DUDES on the DL in Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, and Josiah Stewart but the DL should still be pretty damn strong in 2025.