Media Day photos feat. Derrick Green's guns & Dan Ferrigno's tounge

Green wont be out of shape when the season starts. If you listen to WTKA Marcus Ray said you can lose around 10-15 pounds during camp. Green will be fine, the face that people are complaining about this is a joke. Get a life a stop worrying if someone is five pounds overweight.

To the guy who says Green looks fat and out of shape. Get your eyes checked. Seriously. You must be the supreme specimen of a human being to call what I see in those pictures "fat and out of shape."

...is patently stupid. He's a workout beast. Here's what Fred Jackson said about his weight today in this free Scout article about the RBs.

Coming into camp carrying more than a fair amount of hype, true freshman tailback Derrick Green also brought a bigger frame than expected, weighing in at 240-pounds. Normally cause for some concern for a player looked upon to carry the ball immediately, Jackson assuaged the idea that the former five-star recruit will be too heavy to hit the field.

Right now, you don’t see any evidence of it,” Jackson said. “You got to wait. After two-a-days are over he’s going to lose some weight. I don’t know what his playing weight is, coach Wellman is going to talk to me about that as he see’s him more but I don’t know about that situation right now. After a couple weeks I’ll know.

I know that when I saw him on the high school film, he was 240. He’s a big guy. You got to look at him from the back and the side -- that’s a huge human being.”

Suffering a minor injury in camp last week, Green has been sidelined ever since. Not expected to miss any significant time, Jackson still envisions Green will be in the mix for the starting job.

“I think he’ll still have that ability because he’s in the mental part of it,” Jackson said. “He’ll be fine that way.

“You lose a little bit physically but mentally he’s in the meetings and stuff,” Jackson said. “He’s going to be all right. He’ll get back and be ready to go here real soon. I don’t think it’ll hurt him that much.”

In the short time watching Green in practice, Jackson believes the Wolverines have a good one in the making.

“He can make you miss,” Jackson added. “He’s got great feet, a lot better than I thought, and I think he’s going to be as advertised.”

Maybe its just the photo, but Braden is gona have trouble finding a helmet that fits.

What a fatty!  Gorgeous Borges, on the other hand...

He's like Christian Okoye and Ironhead Heyward but faster.

Kerridge is literally twice as wide as the little guy next to him. Those are some broad shoulders.

but I'm overwhelmed by the differenece in bulk between Hoke and RR squads.

 

We look like a Big Ten team again.

Is borges approaching Weiss territory? Coach hoke looks like a smashed piece of meat.

In that picture, Green reminds me of PJ Hill from Wisconsin, same body shape.

Good lord, some of the comments in this post......

They can't bring back the neg-bang fast enough.

Le'Veon Bell while at MSU was listed as an inch or two taller and basically the same weight (237). I personally think that if Hoke could have picked one RB in the BIG that he could have had on his team it would have been Bell. That would seem to be the prototyical body type that he would love to give the ball too like 25-30-times per game. After going through 2 a days and all the conditioning Green will be around 230-235 and hopefully eating LB's and DB's!!! 

Only the Michigan fan base can get the best running back recruit in the country, then worry that he is out of shape, and then argue about it. The best part is that there hasn't been a down of football played yet.

The "damn that guy looks a little crazy award" should go to Sione Houma. 

Looks angry... like another high schooler tried to arm tackle him

Body compositions mean nothing. It's all about coordination, quick twitch muscle fibers, leverage, and so on. I went to HS with a guy that played MLB and made it to state in track for hurdles. He weighed 240 and had back rolls when he stood with bad posture. Some guys don't have the metabolism to get ripped up, but they still have the genetics to be athletic as can be. Jerome Bettis would be a prime example. He succeeded at all levels, and probably met the requirements to classified as obese during his entire career. Also, a guy with that much muscle that is exercising as much as him could easily lose a pound about every other day. Losing 5 or 10 lbs would be no problem if they want him to lose it before the season starts.

It looks like he put on a lot of upper body strength in the Gym.  I see him losing 5 lbs in camp and 5 more during September. He should be around 230 by October.  I don't believe he was ever 220 with that frame.

looking at our O-Linemen, Wellman will fix it / get it right. Green's a freshman, just give him time. I'm imaginingo eggs, chicken, and fish in his future, and not very many carbs.

In the meantime, if Fred and the coaches say he is good enough to play, then so be it. I know we don't play them, but my mind brings up 1st and goal from the one yard line at Illinois: now imagine that scenario with Kerridge and Green in the backfield ...

So... Green came in a little out of shape...

 

Calm down, everyone.

Green's not out of shape. The top photo looks different than the group photo. His shirt's untucked in the top one and he's walking (see Tuley-Tillman behind him similarly).

In the group shot there's no indication that he's overweight.

I'm not sure how this photo didn't make the OP it is by far my favorite:

 

Having met Green in person, I can definitely say that he is thicker in the mid-section (unless that camera played some tricks). He was really proud of his core and how thinned out he was in the middle. Said it made him feel more balanced and fluid moving laterally.

And yes, I had a conversation with Green about his battle with weight. I told him I was very impressed with how hard he had worked and he appreciated the encouragement. We talked about his battle for about ten minutes and he lit up like a little kid at Christmas.