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cade mcnamara is not mentioned in this post[Bryan Fuller]
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Unverified Voracity Might Get Drafted By The Lions, But Everything Else Is Great
Brian • December 1, 2021 • 1:37pm

Sponsor Note. Start a business! You're overwhelmed with joy, now is the time to do the thing! Look, they did the thing, now you can do the thing, all that malaise you were walking around with has evaporated like so many takes in the sun. And when you start your thing, call up Richard Hoeg to make it legal and official.

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He will do the documents and the paper wrangling so you can get to the business of your business. Hit him up today, he's in a good mood.

Here is a video. You will enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ak9Uxtntfk

Please do not damage the defensive ends. We have a need for them.

No, I don't think I will. I have not been here. I do not have to act like I have been.

Also: 13 YPP!

[After THE JUMP: Iowa is bad at offense but good at defense]

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Unverified Voracity Grades It Out
Brian • November 4, 2021 • 3:40pm

Sponsor note. Richard Hoeg will do business law things for you. Contracts! Incorporation! Advice! That sort of thing! If you're interested in being the proprietor of your own small business he'll get you started.

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We should probably get his Dune takes. Because he does that, too: purvey opinions on the internet. You could even have a business that purveys opinions on the internet. Who's heard of such a thing?

Moving on up. Aidan Hutchinson is #2 in PFF's latest mock draft:

2. HOUSTON TEXANS: EDGE AIDAN HUTCHINSON, MICHIGAN

Hutchinson is not only an elite prospect from a traits perspective, as he checked in at No. 2 on Bruce Feldman’s preseason Freaks List, but he’s also been elite from a production standpoint. Hutchinson is the highest-graded edge defender in college football this season (93.7). He's racked up 30 pressures across his past five games and is the kind of cornerstone player Houston can build a defense around.

Other names of note: #7 Tyler Lindenbaum (C, Iowa), #8 George Karlaftis (Edge, Purdue), #18 Garrett Wilson (WR, OSU), #23 Chris Olave (WR, OSU), and #27 Jaquan Brisker (S, PSU). The only other Michigan player in their top ten positional rankings is #4 S Dax Hill. That might be good news, overall, because Michigan should get almost everyone back next year.

Grimace dot emoji. Also in PFF items:

Highest single-game rushing grade vs. Michigan in the PFF College Era

Player
Rushing Grade

1. Kenneth Walker, Michigan State (2021)
90.8

2. Dalvin Cook, Florida State (2016)
88.4

3. Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin (2019)
81.6

Three of his five touchdowns came on a run of 20 or more yards, even though Michigan had given up only one 20-plus-yard touchdown run on the year before this weekend.

PFF apparently had Michigan their top-graded rush defense in the country prior to Saturday, which is odd given, like, Wisconsin and Georgia, but grading does not happen in a vacuum. You get points for winning your matchup even if that's against bad teams, and there's no reasonable way to adjust for strength of schedule at the macro level.

It is wild that a guy who transferred away from Wake Forest is a Heisman contender at Michigan State and Wake Forest (Wake Forest!) is 8-0.

[After THE JUMP: more PFF and basketball preview items]

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Unverified Voracity Demands Targets
Brian • January 7, 2020 • 1:46pm

Nico's back. Michigan goes 1/3 on junior WRs:

Now for the love of all that is big and leapy shove targets down this man's throat until he bursts.

This does not include Collins drawing pass interference penalties at a higher rate than anyone else nationally. Hooray for Michigan turning their offense around midseason, now give Nico Collins 100 targets or we riot.

[After THE JUMP: I will never get over Lorenzo Romar]

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