i'marion stewart

We've got a couple Hellos to plow through after this past weekend saw Michigan land a couple commitments. The first of which is Illinois WR I'Marion Stewart, who shut his commitment down after many months of having the Wolverines as his clear favorite. Stewart is now the second WR in Michigan's 2024 recruiting class, as the program continues to round out the offensive side of the ball in this class. 

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Stewart is a 3* to three of the four major scouting outfits, Rivals being the outlier on the high side. There is some thought that Stewart may be a riser over his senior season now that he has transferred to Kenwood Academy, but we shall see about that. Regardless, he's a classic recruit caught between being a 3.5* and true 4* status, outside the top 300, but not too far out. The measurements are pretty consistent, 6'1" the most generous listing though based on the scouting reports, I'd think 6'0" is closer to the truth. 180 is a decent consensus for where Stewart's weight is at this time. 

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2024 4* WR I'Marion Stewart announced his commitment to Michigan this afternoon: 

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— I’Marion_Stewart (@IMarion_Stewart) June 16, 2023

Stewart was considered a hard Michigan lean for some time and today he shut it down, picking the Wolverines. Stewart is a native of Chicago and currently attends Kenwood Academy for HS ball. He's currently the 318th ranked national prospect in the 247 composite, 7th in the state of Illinois and the 27th ranked WR nationally. Michigan won Stewart's services over offers from Wisconsin and Illinois, among others. I'Marion Stewart is now the second WR in Michigan's 2024 recruiting class, joining North Carolina's Channing Goodwin. Goodwin's teammate Jordan Shipp is next up on Michigan's list of targets at the receiver position with Stewart now in the fold. 

Stewart will get his hello early next week. There is no content after the jump.

Things discussed:

• Recruiting is #1: Should Ohio State fans be freaking out? Well yeah, because Michigan has Ohio State's class.
• Why are centers underrated? High schools can't waste beasts at center, and Wonderlic scores don't come out in college recruiting.
• Jerod Smith: How that all went down. How committable were his Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee offers? Pretty committable.
• I'Marion Stewart is their #1 WR since the July camp. Marquise Lightfoot is turning into an elite, good to have Stewart at his school in his ear but that one's an uphill battle.
• The three transfers: Those are all depth chart things after spring. NHG was still hurt. Henning is a loss but there were other guys doing that and he wasn't going to be getting many targets. Moten really fell off a cliff last year, and if he's behind Quinten Johnson and Zeke Berry, it wasn't happening.
• NFL Draft: Don't like the quarterbacks.
• Seth thinks teams are going to pass on QBs and take the personality gamble on Jalen Carter. Everyone agrees he's the best player in the draft, but even Georgia coaches are saying they won't miss him: Todd McShay has 7 sources.
• Brian: Ignore these quarterbacks, all of them are going to be failures.
• CJ Stroud: Every time he opens his mouth it's like stop talking. Michael Vick and Deshaun Watson are the guys you model yourself after? Losing to Michigan doesn't define me? You're a football player not a test taker? Dude!
• All I'm hearing there is Georgia coaches are going to bad mouth their own players at the draft; seems like something the recruits should know about.
• Can the Lions trade down and get Devon Witherspoon lower? Only if the QBs fall down to 6th and someone wants to trade up five spots to get one.
• Wolverines in the draft? Mazi Smith doesn't have the pass rush to be in the 1st round but solid 2nd rounder. DJ Turner on the other hand could make it. Seth: there's a pretty tight group of CBs and they're all in a pretty solid order so that run could happen in the 1st round or 2nd. He's got a really high floor and some team is going to see the ceiling too, because his one issue is he's too slight.
• Here's the Brett Kollman video I referenced.

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