Exit Thomas Rawls
MLive reporter Eric Woodyard has tweeted that Thomas Rawls is transferring to Central Michigan. The writing was on the wall for Rawls after being passed by not only two freshman tailbacks but—at least in the land of depth charts—Drake Johnson. Rawls didn't see a carry after the opener despite the chaos at tailback, and wasn't going to next year. This has likely been in the works for a while, as Michigan started pursuing a tailback in the 2014 recruiting class a couple months ago.
Rawls was a Signing Day add in the Rodriguez/Hoke transitional class with generic three star hype from everyone except Fred Jackson, who made ludicrous comparisons to Mark Ingram because that's what Fred Jackson does.
I'll wait until spring practice is over to update the Attrition Watch fully; for now just know that Rawls is the eighth member of the 21-man 2011 class to depart. With Desmond Morgan, Frank Clark, Blake Countess, Brennen Beyer, and Raymon Taylor looking like starting-quality players, the 2011 outfit is marginally better than 2010. Marginally being your key word there.
Michigan will go into spring with a tentative depth chart like so:
- Derrick Green
- DeVeon Smith
- Justice Hayes
- Drake Johnson
January 25th, 2014 at 3:30 PM ^
January 25th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^
Rawls was the name on Talk radio 3 weeks ago that I referred to in a post as good attrition.
Good kid who was not going to play here. He now gets a chance to play and be the big fish in the MAC pond. If he was ever going to go to the NFL he needed to play. We get a scholarship back. Win Win. Sorry it did not work out but this is major Division 1 (Semi Pro) Football.
January 25th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
He should get more playing time at CMU. It must be tough for a highly touted recruit to sit on the bench. But for some reason he never showed his talents on the field and perhaps not even in practice as he slipped down the starting order. I always thought he would become that big power running back.
January 27th, 2014 at 8:00 AM ^
But he wasn't really a highly rated recruit.
January 25th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
in all his future endeavors
January 25th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
in all his future endeavors
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January 25th, 2014 at 8:08 PM ^
I hope Mount Pleasant is a very, er, pleasant experience for you & you do well for the Chips.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
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January 26th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^
You know Central is scheduled to play Sparty in 2015.
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