Hello. This is an attempt to give you a 1,000 foot view of Michigan's current recruiting class. It lives as a wiki post under the "Useful Stuff" heading as well, and can be updated by anyone with 500+ points.
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SCHOLARSHIPS
We assume Michigan will go to 28.
Michigan has 16 open spots right now plus three specialists who may be on one of those "you get the first spot that opens up" kind of deals. In addition there are 2-4 guys who probably won't get fifth years.
Thus Michigan is expecting to lose at least 5-8 current members of the roster (other than fifth years) before Signing Day. (Big Ten rules prevent teams from oversigning unless they can explain where the scholarship is coming from.) That's not an inordinate number given the roster composition, the sudden possibility of NFL interest, and the fact that this is the first year of a new coach. We know of one guy who is already planning a playing-time transfer, FWIW, and there are no doubt more.
CURRENT CLASS SIZE
We are not considering Dele Harding a commit. He was removed from the Rivals commit list and any insider you poke will tell you they don't expect him to end up at Michigan.
We have also heard that some of the camp commits in the class were explicitly offered grayshirt deals. We are not exactly sure who, but depending on how things go Michigan could end up with extra spots in the class as guys reclassify to 2017 or take opportunities for 2016 elsewhere.
In addition, Chris Evans, Kingston Davis, and David Reese have all announced plans to take visits and should be considered soft commits.
So: the current class is somewhere between 14 and 20 guys. Welcome to 'crootin.
ROOM LEFT AND WHO MICHIGAN IS TARGETING
Michigan can take somewhere between 8 and 14 additional players. They are targeting approximately
- one running back
- one wide receiver
- one tight end
- one OL
- one kicker
- two or three DL
- two or three LB
- one or two CB
- one or two S
The only spot that is definitively full right now is QB.
MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 'CROOTIN OVERVIEW | |||||||||||||||||||
Position | On The | DECENT SHOT | TOP GROUP | LEADER | HARD COMMITS | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QB(2) |
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| RB(2) | K. Davis* | K. Enis | |||||||||||||||||
| FB (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
| WR(2 +1) |
| B. Hawkins A. Mitchell | |||||||||||||||||
| Slot (1) | P Young C. Evans | ||||||||||||||||||
| TE (1+1) | D Asiasi |
| S. McKeon* | ||||||||||||||||
| OT(2) |
| E. Swenson D. Hamilton | |||||||||||||||||
| OG(2+1) | |||||||||||||||||||
| C (0) |
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| DT(+1) | B Tagaloa | R. Weaver | |||||||||||||||||
| NT (+1) | K Camp J Elliott | ||||||||||||||||||
| SDE(1) | C Murphy | R. Johnson | |||||||||||||||||
| WDE (1+1) | T Lucas# | Q Alexander | C Kemp | ||||||||||||||||
| SLB (0) | J McCulloch | ||||||||||||||||||
| ILB (3+1) | D Jackson | C Kelly J Jones | D Reese D Bush Jr | ||||||||||||||||
| CB (8+1) | A. Richardson S.P. Scott | ||||||||||||||||||
| S (1+1) | A Posey# | J Fuller C Brown | L Jackson | D. Gil J Metellus | |||||||||||||||
| P/K/LS (0+1) | Q Nordin | ||||||||||||||||||
commits in bold | |||||||||||||||||||
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