A Glance at the 2017 Recruiting Board

Submitted by Indonacious on

With the commits today, figured it may be relevant.

1 QB: Currently McCaffrey.

3 RB: Currently Taylor, Dillon, and Samuels. May change with outside chance at Harris and Akers.
0-1 FB: Currently Mason; Possibly Carter if Mason is slotted as LB
0-1 TE: Don't really have any obvious targets on the board. Falo Possible.
4 WR: DPJ, Collins, Black, Martin. 
8-9 OL: Currently Hall, Stueber, Honingford, and Herbert.
- Most likely also Wilson, Ruiz. 
- Possibly Wills, Fillaga, and Slaton.
- Unlikely Leatherwood.

6-9 DL: Currently CMH, Paye, Paea, Jeter, Hudson, Villain. 
- Possibly Tufele, 
Reitmaier and Irving-Bey. 
3-4 LB: Ross currently (Mason could count here as well);
- Likely Singleton, Anthony, and Gay.

1-2 CB: St-Juste currently; Thomas likely
2-3 S: Woods currently; JKP and Hawkins (from previous class) are likely

It seems like based on what's cooking... 32 seems like it is a target number for us. Emphasis on the trenches is pretty clear.

There were obviously other people on the board, but I wanted to keep it pretty streamlined. I will edit in any obvious omissions! 

Maybe I should add Aaron Banks who I think harbaugh visited during the bye week. 
http://247sports.com/Player/Aaron-Banks-75957

#Michigan will be hosting El Cerrito (Calif.) 2017 four-star OL Aaron Banks next month. All the details inside ($)

Night_King

October 24th, 2016 at 10:23 PM ^

Nicely done, Indonacious. Has anyone heard updates on Shanon Reid? Assuming if we have interest in Willie Gay and he can overcome whatever hurdles he is facing to get into UM, he'd certainly take Reid's chances away.




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Big Blue in WI

October 24th, 2016 at 10:29 PM ^

Not a bad list at all...and I'd take it anyway day. However, I think last year will be more the norm moving forward (depending on how possible early singing periods shake out) in that there are likely numerous guys not currently on the radar that will emerge as we get closer to signing day and 'the board' will look at lot different in Feb than it does today.

CorkyCole

October 24th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^

I don't think a lot different, but it will look a little different. Too many of the guys listed either have Michigan at the top or right near the top. I think maybe three commitments will take place outside the recruits listed above out of possibly 12-14 total additional commitments. Around 20-25% or so. Just too many recruits that we seem to be in excellent shape for. Recruiting is going really well right now.

goblueritzy92

October 24th, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^

Sam Webb said today that Michigan could take as many as 16 big guys with it either being 7 OL/9 DL or split evenly. That, to me, is absolutely insane and would force too much early attrition.

Big Blue in WI

October 24th, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^

Don't completely disagree...but also think it is a good problem to have and somewhat of a necessity. We have a ton of attrition due to graduation on both lines as it is this year. Depending on the haul, you can assume a 'somewhat' even split of early contributors and some developmental projects to smooth the distribution between classes. There will assuredly be some attrition, but the cream will have risen to the top, and future OL/DL recruiting will proceed without insanely high numbers in subsequent years.

goblueritzy92

October 24th, 2016 at 11:22 PM ^

DL yes

 

OL, I don't see 3-4 true frosh playing nect year. Assuming Cole stays, we will have him, Newsome, Bredeson, and Kugler. It seems like there was a top 7 with those guys and the 3 seniors before any injuries occured. Slot in JBB and Ulizio who has gotten some playing time and maybe Dawson. There's 7 right now with plenty of positional flexibility (Newsome is the only guy who is a definite OT). You can assume 1 freshman may jump in to the top 7, but definitely not 3-4.

michgoblue

October 24th, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^

I kind of agree, but you have to look at the class size. In a normal 22-24 man class, you could easily have 5 of each, leaving 12-14 non-big men spots. If we are going to take 30-31, and we take 16 bigs, we still have 14-15 non-big spots left (I.e. as many, or more, than would be available in an ordinary class).

jmdblue

October 24th, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^

A quick count of the other position numbers combined with16 linemen adds to about 30 which is the number we've been discussing for a few months. I think it's gonna take a couple years to get recruiting balanced again, but for now we're dealing with the loss of LTT and the poor hoke/Harbaugh combo class.

goblueritzy92

October 24th, 2016 at 11:31 PM ^

To get to 30 you assume 16 plus our 8 other non line current commits. Add in 3 WR, 1 LB, and 1 CB, 1 S.

 

That assumes no FB, TE, 4th WR (they are likely leading for all 4), Anthony, Brad Hawkins, and any other guy who will pop up.

 

With the names and positions listed that would be 34-35. The 16 seems overkill when you are constricting it to 30.

UofM626

October 24th, 2016 at 11:16 PM ^

The WR's fast! We really need 2-3 5* players to verbal soon. If that happens others will verbal immediately. Nervous about DPJ and Collins for some reason.

CorkyCole

October 24th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^

Then you haven't been paying that much attention. He wasn't "all Sparty" four weeks ago when MSU still wasn't a known terrible team. 4 losses later, I think it's pretty much been confirmed that Thomas isn't necessarily impressed by that... Sam Webb mentioned the other day that it's only helped Michigan's case - The early playing time card isn't exactly working for them with all these losses.

superstringer

October 24th, 2016 at 11:41 PM ^

Last years lesson:

You cant possibly do this list this far out. Look at all of the last-minute guys we were in on last year. Its so fluid. I will proverbially wager that 6 or more guys to be in our class next year arent on your list.




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