A Glance at the 2017 Recruiting Board
With the commits today, figured it may be relevant.
1 QB: Currently McCaffrey.
3 RB: Currently Taylor, Dillon, and Samuels. May change with outside chance at Harris and Akers.
0-1 FB: Currently Mason; Possibly Carter if Mason is slotted as LB
0-1 TE: Don't really have any obvious targets on the board. Falo Possible.
4 WR: DPJ, Collins, Black, Martin.
8-9 OL: Currently Hall, Stueber, Honingford, and Herbert.
- Most likely also Wilson, Ruiz.
- Possibly Wills, Fillaga, and Slaton.
- Unlikely Leatherwood.
6-9 DL: Currently CMH, Paye, Paea, Jeter, Hudson, Villain.
- Possibly Tufele, Reitmaier and Irving-Bey.
3-4 LB: Ross currently (Mason could count here as well);
- Likely Singleton, Anthony, and Gay.
1-2 CB: St-Juste currently; Thomas likely
2-3 S: Woods currently; JKP and Hawkins (from previous class) are likely
It seems like based on what's cooking... 32 seems like it is a target number for us. Emphasis on the trenches is pretty clear.
There were obviously other people on the board, but I wanted to keep it pretty streamlined. I will edit in any obvious omissions!
Maybe I should add Aaron Banks who I think harbaugh visited during the bye week.
http://247sports.com/Player/Aaron-Banks-75957
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:25 PM ^
I heard he retired after Harambe died. Just took too much out of him.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^
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October 25th, 2016 at 10:35 AM ^
Hopefully he comes back!
October 24th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
I think he is saving his best for crunch time.
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I realize he is but I meant "maybe" more from his perspective because I haven't heard that much suggesting that we lead or something and not a maybe in terms of him being a target.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
October 24th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
Maybe he feels shame about his diatribe about Don Broen being a mediocre hire,
October 24th, 2016 at 10:10 PM ^
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
I wasn't thinking that at all, but now I am.
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October 24th, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^
I believe Gay and Reid project to different positions so we could have both of them.
October 25th, 2016 at 9:41 AM ^
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Sam Webb said today that Michigan could take as many as 16 big guys with it either being 7 OL/9 DL or split evenly. That, to me, is absolutely insane and would force too much early attrition.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
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October 24th, 2016 at 11:22 PM ^
DL yes
OL, I don't see 3-4 true frosh playing nect year. Assuming Cole stays, we will have him, Newsome, Bredeson, and Kugler. It seems like there was a top 7 with those guys and the 3 seniors before any injuries occured. Slot in JBB and Ulizio who has gotten some playing time and maybe Dawson. There's 7 right now with plenty of positional flexibility (Newsome is the only guy who is a definite OT). You can assume 1 freshman may jump in to the top 7, but definitely not 3-4.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:31 PM ^
Not sure if he would be able to play by next year, but just hoping he can resume his career at some point - he was really coming around.
Is it possible for him to take a medical redshirt and rehab all next year?
October 24th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^
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To get to 30 you assume 16 plus our 8 other non line current commits. Add in 3 WR, 1 LB, and 1 CB, 1 S.
That assumes no FB, TE, 4th WR (they are likely leading for all 4), Anthony, Brad Hawkins, and any other guy who will pop up.
With the names and positions listed that would be 34-35. The 16 seems overkill when you are constricting it to 30.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
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Nine of the 22 starters are big guys, and (at least on defense) big guys rotate more than other positions. It's not crazy that about half of our recruiting class would be big guys.
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Another TE target this year is Dalton Keene, he is a Virginia Tech commit though.
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All day. To have options at most key positions is pretty fantastic. Harbaugh!
GO BLUE!!
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October 24th, 2016 at 11:41 PM ^
You cant possibly do this list this far out. Look at all of the last-minute guys we were in on last year. Its so fluid. I will proverbially wager that 6 or more guys to be in our class next year arent on your list.
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