Ryan Hayes Commits To Michigan
Michigan's picked up their second in-state tackle in a few days here:
Traverse City (Mich.) West Top247 offensive tackle/tight end Ryan Hayes tells 247Sports he has committed to Michigan.
Hayes also strongly considered opportunities from Notre Dame and Michigan State among others.
"It just felt right from my first visit and I just loved everything about it there," Hayes added.
Like Jalen Mayfield, Hayes is a Greg Frey special delivery: an athletic frame to heap muscle on until 300 pounds is achieved and you've unlocked Taylor Lewan 2.0. Hayes is the #3 player in the state on the composite and #205 player overall; he could be upwardly mobile on those in-state rankings since Marquan McCall just told Land of Ten that his Kentucky commitment was more or less because everyone else stopped calling.
Hayes is a four-star on three sites, with Rivals currently lagging. Ace will have a hello post in the near future.
Eligibility uncertainty can be indicative of ability at picking up schemes and plays. Seems like a legit reason to downgrade someone.
....true, especially given how more complex a JH Michigan offense is vs. his HS offense.
Just playing devils advocate, lots of possibilities.
Memorial Day weekend commitment. Just like Jabrill four years ago.
Frey is going all in on the slim OL prototypes i see...
1. To upgrade the position group with players who can handle speed rushers. FSU's athletic DL embarrassed our OL in the Orange Bowl. It's no surprise not a single player from that upperclassmen-laden OL was drafted.
2. Looking forward, we want athletic lineman for the hybrid offense we will run. We need to be equally dominant at run blocking as pass blocking. Athleticism raises the ceiling of a player and allows them to be good at both.
It's great to see some good OT prospects in the pipeline!
Doing the job.
Championships produced by top Olines.
Yeah those Wildlings sure play with an edge. And those White Walkers have ice water in their veins. We should be recruiting more of them.
for us 'up north' types. good for the kid. great decision.
but i also remember losing a couple of great ones, including one to oregon.
Kerridge was a walk-on.
kid which was the call of the question and obviously a fan favorite who became a schollie player. good get with the khoury name, i was vapor locking on other names. jake fisher was the one who i think went to oregon and was very good.
Rocko Khoury in 2008.
Where'd he finish his career? Only thing I could find is he was taking a 5th year elsewhere but couldn't find where
AFAIK, he did not play football after leaving the Michigan program.
Mayfield and Hayes are the exact same size guys like Taylor Lewan, Jacob Fisher, and Jason Spriggs were in high school. Not coincidentally all those guys were Greg Frey recruits. I wouldn't hold my breath on rivals giving either of these guys 4 stars because Helmholdt is terrible. Him dying on the Chris Wormley is a 3 star was the last straw for me. That aside, these are two enormous pick ups. With 2018 OL recruiting all but wrapped up might be a good time to start working on Devonte Dobbs.
The Rivals state of Michigan rankings are hilarious. Michigan has barely recruited anyone in their top 9 in the state, they have Hayes at 17th and Mayfield at 25th. And we've seen in the past, if they don't go to Rivals camps they won't get a boost.
Maybe a credible site should ask itself "If the top program in the state isn't recruiting anyone in the top 5, maybe we should revisit our rankings".
I think this just is what rivals is at this point
In fairness to Rivals, they don't update those lists very often. To some extent, I think 247 has "ruined" this type of thing for other sites. 247 updates their lists constantly, to the point that I stopped tracking the updates. In the time since Rivals has updated that top 25 list, 247 has probably updated it 5 times.
I have to say I was pretty disappointed with his film.
I don't want to overstate it. His height and length is awesome. When he hits people they move. He moves well and seems to hit targets on the move well.
What disappointed me is he is a waist bender and he doesn't appear to naturally block with his hands, instead throwing his shoulder and momentum into people. That is highly troubling. Being a waist bender is not usually something you can coach out of players, kind of like a throwing motion or shooting motion you can only change so much on most players.
I don't care about his weight.
I'll be really interested to see him in some pass block sets as there wasn't much of that on his junior tape.
coaches who make alot of money seem to have a different opinion of him then your expert opinion.
but I thought he looked pretty good shoving around those 150-pounders.
I don't think he's a waist-bender at all, and I don't think Greg Frey would have recruited him if he was.
But as for the shoulder blocking and waist bending, he plays in a Dead-T offense that encourages shoulder blocking, and shoulder blocking requires you to stay low. That's why you see a lot of those teams practice their blocking by using chutes, whereas zone blocking teams don't generally use chutes as much.
I agree that he uses his shoulder to block, but he also bends his knees and maintains good power angles throughout. There's definitely technique work to be done, but this is the same exact offense (IIRC) that produced Jake Fisher at Oregon. It's not a death knell for his career to be playing in this type of offense and doing what his high school coach asks of him.
ok. I'll take that. One reason I said I'd like to see more film. I agree on the knee bend. That does appear to be strong, part of the reason he is able to block on the move and drive his man on contact. My concern came in when I see his shoulders so far out in front of his feet as often as I do. Also since shoulder blocking is encouraged it makes it so you can't judge his ability to punch or his hand strength when he locks onto someone.
I also agree with your other statements about this being the type of guy you want with how he moves and the cut of his body. With this height I will assume he has long arms.
He takes some good projection because he doesn't do things currently that he will need to do at Michigan.
Grey Frey has proven he sees talent that other programs do not see. I wasn't questioning Frey as much as saying I thought I'd be more impressed by his film.
6'7" frames can carry a LOT of weight. One of my HS D&D buddies was a nose tackle at 6'7" and he'd bounce around between 235 and 285 (he was also a wrestler) and I never noticed any change. I'm sure it made a difference to whomever he hit, but he was just so huge, give or take 25 pounds just didn't look like very much.
But also, when people see 250-, 300-pound athletes they generally expect an Arnold Schwarzenegger build, I think. But bodybuilders explicitly go for an inverted triangle shape, all pecs and delts and abs. You certainly need a lot of upper body strength to be a lineman, but they drive forward with their legs and butts, which can pack on far more weight than the top.
strongly considered Notre Dame and MSU, then he read the following on a random number generator. 3-9 and 4-8.
The best players in Michigan ... go to Michigan.
Am confused. Post does not start with Hello. Send help.
That is one skinny dude for someone who's supposed to be 250. Because all commit weight analysis is positive, that means he's got a huge frame with lots of room to pack on the pounds. Welcome young fella.
The guy in the grey t-shirt looks exactly like the person who quoted my sliding glass door replacement job.
But seriously welcome aboard!
Significant that he is a baseball talent. Anyone can be 300lbs (well not everyone but it doesn't take talent for some.)
We missed a #1 NFL draft pick in Fisher (most everyone did), this is that make up call.
If he tops out at 280... he will find a job - assuming he can't hit a B1G curve ball. I like our chances.
You get what you pay for in the SEC. You get what you work for here. I like this one.
He wears Patagucci as well...quality first.
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