depth chart

The Depth Chart By Class has been updated for the upcoming season, and with it comes the annual front page posting. This is that. If you see something wrong and you have 500+ points you can hit that page up and fix it yourself. It's like U-Scan.

Allotted: 83

Seniors: 16.

Recruits: Pending the potential additions of Kozan and Diamond, 18 slots are open. There are a couple of fourth-year juniors who may not get renewed; Nate Brink may be in line for the Kovacs upgrade.

Latest Update: 2/2/2012 update for the 2012 season. Goodbye, seniors.

Released in the depths of the WMU game notes:

Items:

• Heininger didn't get the memo that Brink was the walk-on who was supposed to start at SDE. Seriously, Hoke said point blank he would start.
• Will Campbell is back at one tech?
• Martavious Odoms is way down the depth chart.
• That horrible, horrible OR at K.
• Freshmen who made it on: Beyer, Clark, Morgan, Brown, and Countess
• Hopefully Barnum's presence means his injury isn't significant.
• Somewhat surprising that Mike Jones managed to hold on to the starting WLB job without so much as an OR. Seems like we've heard about everyone save him.

This is the front-page version of the post that lives in the "useful stuff" tab updated for 2011. Since Hoke announced Michigan would be running a shifted 4-3 I've changed the defensive depth chart to reflect what's likely to happen in spring. Defensive ends have been split into strong and weakside positions and Ryan Van Bergen has been moved back into the DT row on the assumption Michigan's starting DL reads Black-Martin-Van Bergen-Roh next year. Large sections of the secondary are wild-ass guesses we won't get resolution on until Spring.

Right now Michigan has 16 slots for the 2011 class and two players who are obvious candidates to not get fifth years, so with normal attrition they'll be in the mid-twenties again next year.

As far as the end result of The Process: Michigan is two scholarships short pending tomorrow's Willingham commitment, which right now looks like it won't go M's way. In addition, they're carrying Mike Williams—a likely medical redshirt—and at least two more players who could have not gotten fifth years after graduating this spring. Michigan forewent up to five additional recruits thanks to the awkward timing of The Process. They didn't sock themselves with USC scholarship penalties—they socked themselves with half of USC's scholarship penalties.

Anyway:

Allotted: 83  (Counting Kovacs and Grady as a scholarship players)

Seniors: 14.

Recruits: Right now Michigan has 16 scholarships. There are two redshirt juniors who may not get fifth years if Michigan finds it needs a little wiggle room: Terrance Robinson and Mike Cox.

Latest Update: 2/2/11 – Updated for 2011.

Ed-S: Now with mouseovers! Hold your mouse over each name to get the latest height, weight, and player he most would resemble if he totally pans out.* Click takes you to his recruiting profile, or if that's not available his Hello: post.

Allotted: 85

Seniors: 12 (This number likely to change)

Recruits: 9, leaves ~6 more spots open

Latest Update: 5/15/2013 - Removed M. Robinson and M. Jones

5/12/2013 - Added Lawrence Marshall. Also have been adding links for 2013 recruit profiles, but that has been getting rid of their mouseovers that show measureables and similar player. Maybe someone can add that back? -MichFan1997

* Like "YMRMFSPA" in this site's recruiting profiles, it doesn't say Kaleb Ringer is Sam Sword or even that we think he's a future Sam Sword, just that if he were to reach the outer bounds of reasonable expectation a senior starting Ringer may resemble Sword. For most the original recruiting YMRMFSPA is listed, though I've updated many of the upperclassmen to reflect renewed expectations.

The first and most interesting of the year.

[Walk-ons denoted with #; players not on the official two-deep in italics.]

Items

Gardner. You've probably already been bombarded by this fact on twitter, but Rodriguez specifically stated that freshmen on the two-deep are not going to redshirt this season, which includes Devin Gardner. Grumble.

Other freshmen slotted to play in groups:

• Obvious: all three cornerbacks, Stephen Hopkins
• Encouraging sign: Jibreel Black, Carvin Johnson, Marvin Robinson.
• Surprising: Jeremy Jackson

Carvin Johnson's audition at spur in the Beanie Bowl went well enough that he is the starter, no OR, there. This site's prediction that he'd outperform his recruiting rankings more than anyone else is moving along smoothly, but the secondary just got a tiny bit less experienced… or did it? More in the secondary preview dropping later today.

James Rogers is, at least temporarily, a starting corner.

Kelvin Grady's frequent appearances on fall highlight film have evidently paid off, as with Martavious Odoms' seeming permanent move outside he moves up to co-starter with Roundtree.

Teric Jones is back at running back, his defensive experiment over. Probably for the best given his performance against DSU last year and his obvious speed.

Veterans win at tackle… so far.

Bizarre switch: 289 pound Sagesse is the primary backup at DE/DT and 276 pound Adam Patterson is the primary backup at nose. Theory: Mike Martin isn't coming off the field much and M plans to platoon Sagesse and Banks extensively.

Should we start getting worried about:

• Vlad Emilien: behind a walk-on after a year and a half (he enrolled early).
• Anthony LaLota: behind Steve Watson, also after a year and a half.
• Will Campbell: behind perpetual non-entity Adam Patterson, a guy who moved positions this spring.

Known Boo-Boos:

• Jake Ryan (ACL, mid-October)
• Russell Bellomy (ACL, mid-October, maybe?)
• Fitzgerald Toussaint (tib-fib breakage, on pace to play in opener)