A Glance at the 2017 Recruiting Board
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 ($)
October 24th, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
Not to thread hijack but what the hell happened to alum96 I was hoping to get some swim lanes going after the season
October 24th, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
Wow you're right. O Alum96 where art thou?
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:25 PM ^
I heard he retired after Harambe died. Just took too much out of him.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^
#DOFH
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October 25th, 2016 at 10:35 AM ^
Hopefully he comes back!
October 24th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
I think he is saving his best for crunch time.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:37 PM ^
...I stopped reading at we don't having any obvious TE candidates. It is not maybe Falo...it is 100% Falo...he is our number one take at that position.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:44 PM ^
I realize he is but I meant "maybe" more from his perspective because I haven't heard that much suggesting that we lead or something and not a maybe in terms of him being a target.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
Appreciate the update
October 24th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
Maybe he feels shame about his diatribe about Don Broen being a mediocre hire,
October 24th, 2016 at 10:10 PM ^
I was just thinking that too
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
I wasn't thinking that at all, but now I am.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:21 PM ^
Can we put in LB Baron Browning, ignoring that it's probably not happening?
October 24th, 2016 at 10:58 PM ^
Very clever. +1 appreciation
October 25th, 2016 at 8:49 AM ^
Same for Darnay Holmes?
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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October 24th, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^
I believe Gay and Reid project to different positions so we could have both of them.
October 25th, 2016 at 9:41 AM ^
Really? I'll have to look into it more. I just figured they'd both project as SAMs in this type of defense.
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October 24th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^
great job OP. I do think 1-2 commits won't be here by the time February rolls around
October 24th, 2016 at 10:29 PM ^
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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.
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.
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.
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.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
not necessarily. I'm guessing 3-4 on both side will be playing/two deep next year. which means 3-4 on both lines redshirt.
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.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:31 PM ^
Not sure if he would be able to play by next year, but just hoping he can resume his career at some point - he was really coming around.
Is it possible for him to take a medical redshirt and rehab all next year?
October 24th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^
He would probably take a regular redshirt as he was a true sophomore. Or are you getting at him possibly getting a redshirt of some sort this year, which would be unlikely given his injury happened in the fifth game of the season.
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).
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.
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.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
recruits. Build the walls
October 25th, 2016 at 9:29 AM ^
Nine of the 22 starters are big guys, and (at least on defense) big guys rotate more than other positions. It's not crazy that about half of our recruiting class would be big guys.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:47 PM ^
Darnay Holmes..?
October 24th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
Picking up a top flight DB from SoCal each year is a good thing
October 24th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
I feel like we need a longshot list. Leatherwood, Holmes, Harris, Browning, Gay, Akers, Falo, and Tufele is a good start to the list.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:39 PM ^
Fortunately for us, Tufele isn't a long shot...
October 25th, 2016 at 12:09 AM ^
I saw Sam Webb say something about Aubrey Thomas being back in the mix. The link on the tweet was paywalled so not sure if it is real or a bit of click-bait.
October 25th, 2016 at 12:45 AM ^
I think you mean Aubrey Solomon, but Ambry Thomas would be nice too!
October 25th, 2016 at 8:17 AM ^
Aubrey Solomon in the first place!
October 24th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
Another TE target this year is Dalton Keene, he is a Virginia Tech commit though.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:10 PM ^
I'd like to think Tufele isn't quite in longshot territory. Not saying he is a sure thing...but I'm feeling better about him than the others on the list
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.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:27 PM ^
disappointed that the wrs haven't committed. they know speight will be here another two years and ja playing well already. wtf are they hoping for???
October 25th, 2016 at 8:22 AM ^
the delay could just be getting through their senior seasons and taking officials. dpj is an early enrollee, so realistically, we will know on him sooner than later.
October 24th, 2016 at 11:24 PM ^
All day. To have options at most key positions is pretty fantastic. Harbaugh!
GO BLUE!!
October 24th, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
I don't agree with the Thomas likely. He seems all.sparty to me
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.
October 25th, 2016 at 1:07 AM ^
Ambry Thomas is definitely going blue. He's going with JKP to the good guys.
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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