Michigan is after a number of high-ranking safety prospects for 2022, including longshot elites Bryce Anderson, Domani Jackson, and Chace Biddle, has a good shot to land S/CB Jaeden Gould and Sherrod Covil, and leads for a couple of in-state 4-star athletes in Dillon Tatum, who’s expected to commit soon, and Jaden Mangham, who would be the first Michigan scholarship player from my alma mater of Wylie E. Groves High.

In the meantime they lost a pledge from ATH Taylor Groves, one of the pair of Tennesseans Mo Linguist recruited shortly after his hire. Groves, a four-star Brad Hawkins-like safety prospect who might have also grown into a receiver, announced on Twitter that he’ll be reopening his recruitment.

First I would like to thank @UMichFootball and @CoachMo15 for the opportunity, with that being said, I will be 100% opening my recruitment back up!!

— taylor groves (@iamtaylorgroves) March 30, 2021

Both Groves and the fellow Tennessean he committed with, Kody Jones, have yet to visit Michigan. Jones is planning on taking his official soon and has been working on super 5-star DT Walter Nolen, who grew up with Jones in Memphis. Groves, who’s from Cross Plains, an exurb of Nashville close to the Kentucky border, doesn’t seem particularly connected to Jones beyond their close commitments, so this is not expected to affect Michigan’s efforts in the Volunteer state. Linguist is also after fast-rising Brentwood (Junior Colson) CB Myles Pollard, who recently took a self-guided tour.

Don’t get me wrong—it’s a bummer, particularly because Groves has been moving up the 24/7 rankings—he was up 19 spots and closing in on top-150 overall in a re-rank after his commitment to Michigan. However if the Wolverines were going to suffer any attrition to their 2022 class, at least it’s at a spot where they seem to have more good options than available scholarships.

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