Best Guess Depth Chart

Losing Nico is going to really hurt Milton in year 1. We have 1 WR on the roster taller than 6’1. One!! There is so throw it up under pressure guy. Milton is going to have to fit it into right windows. Most of our WRs (Sanristil, Jackson, Henning) are under 5’10

I think this team looks "good" but with some definite, and serious holes and unknowns...more than I'd want to see. I figured this would be a pretty decent year but not great, however, I also figured they'd be coming off a 11-13 win season which would have made a "little less" of a year more palatable. 

I like the young talent and that makes me excited but looking at the roster, other teams challenges, etc. I could see anything from 4-5 to 7-2.

The quarterback play will likely be the determining factor overall (insert "no crap" comment here)

The fan consternation remains most remarkable. Michigan has recruited well enough to be in the big hunt. The depth chart is fine-even outstanding. Talent must be fully and properly employed and potential realized. It may be (legitimately) argued that, in the Harbaugh era, Michigan has never beaten a team that is better than they are...well-coached teams routinely do this. The issue for Michigan has been and remains coaching. Scheme and in-game adjustments are the issue here. This team has enough physical talent to win an NC.

Hopefully we can get a consistent pass rush with 4 guys, and help our CBs out by playing zone coverage

[checks Don Brown's MO] Oh crap!

Michigan's fortunes will ride or die on its QB and CB play this year. This is the first year since Harbaugh showed up that we don't have a single proven, reliable corner. There's always been a Jordan Lewis, LaVert Hill, David Long, Ambry Thomas, or Channing Stribling back there to man the fort and lock down at least one side of the field to everyone who wasn't OSU. This year......yeesh. Mostly guys who are just that: guys. And then unproven true freshmen or redshirt freshmen who could very well turn into the next stud, but are a year or two away from that. I can see Michigan seriously struggling in Game 1 against a very good Minnesota passing attack, solidifying a bit through the remainder of the season, and then getting eviscerated for ~350-400 passing yards by OSU.

And then QB.....man, I don't know. If Milton has put it all together he could be seriously good. If he hasn't improved much or at all from where we saw him last year, we're going to end up in a lot of games, just like 2013 and 2014, where the defense is absolutely gassed by the start of the fourth quarter because the offense can't stay on the field, and Michigan loses some games it should otherwise win.

I'll take the average and assume he's improved somewhere between a marginal and moderate amount. Good enough to beat the Rutgers, Marylands and Indianas of the world on his own, probably good enough to beat MSU because they're so depleted, but needing serious help to beat the Wisconsins, Penn States, Minnesotas, and OSUs of the world. 

Looks pretty strong outside of WR/CB which are talented but inexperienced. Hopefully they get coached up and exceed expectations!

OL pecking order from the Gattis presser - the order in which he discussed them:

• Vastardis, Hayes, Stueber (Mayfield was not yet granted waiver), Filiaga, Barnhart, Keegan, Carpenter, Attebury (did not mention Jones).

Typically, they chose 6-8 "starters" who get most of the pre-game reps.  Right now the two deep looks like the following:

• LT ... Hayes / Mayfield or Stueber
• LG ...  Filiaga / Keegan or Barnhart
• C ... Vastardis / Carpenter
• RG ... Stueber / Barnhart or Keegan
• RT ... Mayfield / Stueber or Barnhart

The versatile guys are Stueber and Barnhart, who appear to be taking reps at both OT and OG.

Full contact camp will determine the true starters ... who performs the best and stays the healthiest during camp.  There is going to be some full-on contact as Gattis said they need to develop a game-ready physical mindset (i.e. some butt-kicking is going to happen in camp to see who can hack it and get nasty).

Thanks, looks good to me. Lot of question marks BUT lots of talent on the roster too, opportunities for younger guys to become dudes. 

The roster as a whole is pretty young and full of top 500 players, given that this could be thought of as a "developmental" season per Sam Webb, I'm excited to see who breaks out. So many candidates - Milton, Charbonnet, Evans, any of the WR corps, Eubanks, Hinton, Barrett, Dax, seems like a lot of guys have the chance to go from unheard of outside Michigan circles to all-B1G

Last week I posted that Ryan Hayes would be a DT not an OT.  My thread was removed. We shall see!