sammy faustin

[Patrick Barron]

Previously: The Story. Podcast 12.4A, 12.4B, 12.4C. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Interior OL. Offensive Tackle. Defensive End. Defensive Tackle. Linebacker.

Depth Chart

Boundary Corner Yr. Field Corner Yr. Nickelback Yr.
Vincent Gray So.* Gemon Green So.* Andre Seldon Fr.
DJ Turner II Fr.* Sammy Faustin So.* Dax Hill So.
Darion Green-Warren Fr. Jalen Perry Fr.* Brad Hawkins Sr.

Well, crap. We're back.

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There are kids in college who don't remember a point where cornerback was a bonafide problem for Michigan football. The last time Michigan gave more than one start to a guy who wasn't at least a fringe NFL player was 2014(!), when Raymon Taylor got passed midseason by a sophomore Jourdan Lewis. The only guys to go undrafted since, Channing Stribling and Lavert Hill, was second-team and first-team All Big Ten, respectively.

It's been a terrific run. And now it's under serious threat. After Ambry Thomas decided not to opt back in it's been scramble time. First there was a ton of talk about moving Dax Hill to corner. Reasonable! He's a five star. He can hack it. The biggest problem with that is that he is so dynamic that moving him to corner might reduce his impact.

Then Hill went back to safety and Sammy Faustin moved to corner. He might start.

Redshirt freshman Sammy Faustin has switched positions from safety to corner within “the last week" and is in the mix to start on Oct. 24 at Minnesota.

Slam that panic button.

[After THE JUMP: uhhhhhhh]

We're one step closer to having Green/Hill/Green/Green-Warren/Hill-Green on the field at the same time, but could really use one or six more Hills. [Bryan Fuller]

Quick Bits:

  • Sammy Faustin was moved to cornerback, with Dax Hill presumably back at safety. We’ll see if that sticks; the concern about finding another starting CB is real.
  • German Green is the latest cornerback to lead for the second job.
  • Second week in a row our bits title is a reference to a quote about Taylor Upshaw. Man's getting a reputation.
  • Join the me and the JUB tonight at THE UM ALUMNI CLUB OF GREATER CHICAGO KICKOFF EVENT, 6pm CDT, 7pm Eastern
  • DON'T PANIC.

Harbaugh's Contract

What we want to hear: Some fake hot seat controversy out of the James Franklin Book of Favorite False Narratives.

What is sarcasm: This is.

What we're hearing: Omigod Harbaugh only has a couple of years left on his contract, that he's negotiating with an athletic department that just had a $40 million shortfall dropped on it, like every other coach who's up for an extension in a year a pandemic canceled sports! Omigod!

What it means: Harbaugh's staying. If someone's hinting otherwise they're selling something.

Quarterback

What we want to hear: Joe Milton throws are breaking the rules of physics.

What we’re hearing: Insiders with Milton hype ($, info in title) and players with more Milton hype. This was Mike Sainristil:

“As I was tracking the ball, I noticed it was the highest ball I’d ever seen thrown. It was in the air hanging and I asked myself when and where it was going to drop. I kept my head down and kept running. The ball can be tough to track when it’s that high because you don’t know where it’s going to land, you don’t know when it’s going to land.

Where it will land can be guessed based on height, velocity, and trajectory, but I wouldn't know where to begin when it comes to coaching receivers to calculate time dilation on the fly. If you’re into previews, 247 has their position one up.

What it means: Nothing.

Depth chart: Joe Milton and Cade McNamara.

[After THE JUMP: A panicometer update, D-line hype believable and otherwise, and 2018 three-stars galore]

Just add Hinton. [Bryan Fuller]

LOL as soon as I hit post Rivals broke the best news!

A source has informed The Wolverine that Michigan redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Jalen Mayfield will return to play for the Wolverines this upcoming season, despite previously declaring for the NFL Draft and signing with an agent.

I posted the offense earlier this week and meant this to go the next day but then FOOTBAWL BACK and now some of our guys might be returning too and this went from a lament to a prayer. Let's do it by position:

Defensive Tackle

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What we want to hear: Kemp and Hinton are playing, Mazi Smith had a light go on. No more of this Jeter because we have nobody else hype.

What we're hearing: A very good sign for football in general is that Hinton's parents, who started Football Parents 24/7 to organize a voice for parents who don't want their kids' lives endangered like at LSU, are comfortable with the Big Ten's plans. The Michigan Daily:

Two months later, they’re still at the forefront of ensuring proper protocol is met in any football-related decisions. Now, though, they’re fully bought in on the Big Ten’s return to play. And when Michigan takes the field for the first time five weeks from, Chris Jr. will be playing. “Yes, he will,” Chris Sr. told The Daily on Thursday. “He’s excited and we’re excited.”

That desk-chair shattering fist pump was only 90% my football self excited about a breakout DT and 10% honestly encouraged about the availability of daily rapid testing because the Hintons are all over this.

A month ago, rapid antigen tests were $150 each, according to Chris Sr. Now, they’re less than 10 percent of that, at approximately $10 per test. That decrease in price, coupled with advancements in accuracy, helped make it feasible for the conference to provide daily testing.

Carlo Kemp didn't formally announce he's back but he was on the in-house podcast with Jon Jansen and made it sound like that's not even a question.

"The number of games isn't anything for me, it's just being able to play," Kemp said. "If it were eight games, nine games... I'll take it. I'm so happy. I'm so thankful that commissioner listened and was able to find a way to get us back in a safe way to play and thankful for President Schlissel to change his vote and let us play. I'm very thankful for this opportunity that those guys are giving us right now."

Kemp gets knocked for being the Jibreel Black on a DL that lacked a true nose, but he's a solid player you can roll with if you've got other solid players around him. Also the NCAA's decision means Kemp might be around in 2021 too.

In another episode Jansen mentioned Donovan Jeter as "the guy who's extremely motivated." Meanwhile Zach Shaw's depth chart still has the wrong name first($) if you're rooting for Year 2 Mazi to be better than a walk-on who was an offensive lineman not 300 days ago:

Inside, Hinton and Kemp still seem primed to be as good of a duo that Michigan has had since Mo Hurst was donning the maize and blue. Speight continues to impress after a strong fall camp, while Smith and Welschof continue to look like future key members Michigan’s line.

Several guys got some "Dude of the Day" and "Not a Dude but a Guy" recognition that has to be taken as relative but Julius Welschof got a Dude and a Guy recently. Mike Morris and Phil Paea got Guys, which is notable only because it confirms some insider intel I got that they've been impressed with Morris as a pass rusher.

What it means: The 2018-'19 bar isn't that high but we're back to where we were pre-COVID. In case your memory doesn't go back that far, it's "Hope Hinton is the bees knees and they get off the field."

Projected depth chart: Kemp/Hinton, Speight, Welschof, Mazi, Morris, with the doom line hovering to the left of Speight.

[After THE JUMP: good news, good news, good news, and hope for good news]

Josh Metellus is good. Dax Hill is fast. Can Hill be fast and good? 

So many guys discussed I maxed out the site's ability to tag a post

aspire to boredom, oh safeties of mine. learn to knit.