Charlton and the rest of his DE buddies are mysteriously absent
Michigan released their spring game rosters numerically, which is not helpful unless you're a blogger with a content hole to patch. Here are the teams laid out by position, with the assumption that we're still in 4-3 under land:
| OFFENSE | ||
|---|---|---|
| BLUE | POSITION | MAIZE |
| Shane Morris/Wilton Speight | QB | Alex Malzone |
| Ty Isaac/Wyatt Shallman | RB | DeVeon Smith/Derrick Green |
| Joe Kerridge | FB | Bobby Henderson/Brady Pallante |
| Amara Darboh/Drake Harris | WR1 | Jehu Chesson/Da'Mario Jones |
| Jaron Dukes | WR2 | Mo Ways/Freddy Canteen |
| Bo Dever/Jack Wangler | WR3 | Dennis Norfleet/Brian Cole |
| Jake Butt/Ian Bunting | TE | Chase Winovich/AJ Williams |
| Logan Tuley-Tillman | LT | Mason Cole |
| David Dawson | LG | Erik Magnuson |
| Graham Glasgow | C | Patrick Kugler |
| Dan Samuelson | RG | Kyle Kalis |
| Ben Braden/JBB | RT | Greg Froelich |
| DEFENSE | ||
| BLUE | POSITION | MAIZE |
| Chris Wormley | SDE | Henry Poggi/Tom Strobel |
| Ryan Glasgow | NT | Bryan Mone |
| Willie Henry | 3TECH | Maurice Hurst |
| .. | WDE | Lawrence Marshall |
| Allen Gant | SAM | Jared Wangler |
| Desmond Morgan | MLB | Joe Bolden |
| Royce Jenkins-Stone | WLB | Ben Gedeon |
| Blake Countess | CB1 | Channing Stribling |
| Jourdan Lewis/Ross Taylor-Douglas | CB2 | Reon Dawson |
| Brandon Watson/Terry Richardson | NICKEL | AJ Pearson |
| Dymonte Thomas | SS | Jabrill Peppers/Jeremy Clark |
| Jarrod Wilson | FS | Delano Hill |
I don't know what happened to the WDEs. They must have been omitted by accident unless Mario Ojemudia, Lawrence Marshall and Taco Charlton all have transfers pending. Mike McCray and Noah Furbush are also absent. Maybe they're also at this hybrid end spot that got accidentally nuked as well.
UPDATE: Marshall is on there. Other guys not so much.
Couple weird depth chart hints:
- Walk-on city at WR on the blue team. If you assume Drake Harris is not going to be full go, which you should, then the Maize team is way overloaded on scholarship WRs.
- Juwann Bushell-Beatty is the sixth OL on the Maize team while the Blue team only has four scholarship OL, one of whom I picked at random to be the right tackle.
- Ondre Pipkins, James Ross, Drake Johnson, and Khalid Hill are other scholarship absentees. The latter two were expected as both are still recovering from ACL tears. Pipkins and Ross are new injuries, and in Pipkins's case an extremely disappointing one.