New in-state offer: 2022 WR Tay'shawn Trent
Michigan offered Eastpointe (MI) East Detroit wide receiver Tay'shawn Trent. Trent is listed at 6'4" and 205 lbs. by 247 Sports. Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, along with some MAC schools, have also offered.
I don't remember Michigan offering any players from East Detroit before, though I'd be interested to hear of any you might remember.
I'll post his highlights below.
Magnus, if he keeps growing, could you see him as a WR/TE hybrid in the mold of Funchess?
He looks to me like he's going to stick at WR, but you never know.
There are some who remember that Ron Kramer was from East Detroit.
Haha. Good for you. I wasn't following recruiting back in 1953. I learned something today.
It might not be the same as offered, but Bentley says Woody Brown (75-77) and Deyanco Hardwick (2015) were on the roster.
It figures that it would be Lou Creekmur who knew that Kramer was from East Detroit.
In before Maizen shits on the offer.
I’ve known Tay since he was in 6th grade. I coached him in basketball in 8th grade. I coached against him this year and in that game he had a pick 6 from the DE position and also Moss’ed our corner in spectacular fashion.
I spent two hours talking to him on the phone last night. Gattis is taking the lead on this recruitment. He is in the mold of Nico Collins.
I personally am so happy and proud of Tay. I know his mom really well and he is the real deal. The only downside I have is I have to coach against him the next two years.
When I first watched his film, I thought about Braylon. I didn't know if Michigan would offer before they could see him more in person (they did obviously), but he really glides and wins everything in the air. Like you said, a lot like Nico, but as a Detroit kid who I thought might need to camp to get an offer, I thought about Braylon.
He got blitzed with offers this week (9 in total) started with MAC but once Indiana offered then WV, UK, and Michigan followed.
The only other sophomore I’ve coached against who popped out as much as Tay did was Braiden McGregor
I like the Braylon comparison. Wow those highlights are fun to watch. The kid is a monster to defend. It’s always good to have at least one guy on the roster with those jump ball skill sets.
Why? Just To throw a fade to the full back?
If he's 6-4 as a sophomore, he's going to be a grown-ass man by the time he's a senior.
He has grown a solid 4 inches since 8th grade alone. He is already filled out pretty well for his size. Also, he is a pretty young rising junior, still only 15 years old.
That’s a lot of height in 3ish years. Any concerns he will outgrow the WR position? Either way, we’ll find a spot for him!
I would say he’s probably about at his peak. Probably 6’3 but I wouldn’t say any shorter. He’s an animal on D as well. Just has that aggressive dog in him. He actually played QB his whole life up until this year and wasn’t even the #1 option as East Detroit had another D-1 level WR.
I worked in East Detroit for years (have left for a more stable district). There has been so much talent go through that school but it has become a very rough area and sadly a lot of kids don’t make it out. Again, so proud of him.
You said you're in Warren nowadays, right Q?
Coach at Tower (my alma mater) but work at Lakeview
Got it. That's my family's neck of the woods too. My parents went to Tower.
The growth plates of boys don’t close until around 17-18, so he could easily grow 2-3 more inches.
Good point about his height and size? Is it possible he ends up as a TE/WR hybrid like Funchess?
How is his blocking? Not like Funchess was ever a great blocker or in the mold of a traditional TE, but it does allow us to put one more WR in the game from some more traditional sets...ie, it looks like a 3 WR set, but we really have a 4th guy out there that can run every route.
Indiana, WVU, and Kentucky all have a track record of picking up great under-the-radar WRs. I can get down with this offer and I hope TT goes blue soon.
thats a large sophomore - athletes often cheat their listed height or weight a little but that kid looks every bit of 205. itll be interesting to see his size and how well he moves 2 years down the line
any relation to Morgan?
Not that I know of.
Some good WRs in Michigan in 2022. I actually think Dayvon Young is the best of the group, and Michigan hasn't offered yet. Tyrell Henry, Jaden Mangham, Trent, Young, Antonio Gates Jr....Jeremiah Caldwell is probably a Power 5 guy.
Obviously not all of them will end up at Michigan, but it's really a bumper crop of WRs in-state next year.
Do you see any of them as BIG TEN 1st .......you know like you evaluated Shea.. . .
WTF does this mean?
Shea was a good but not great college QB.
He ended his Michigan career with 424 completed passes in 706 attempts for a 60.0 completion percentage.
In 2 seasons, he had 5,661 passing yards, 45 passing TDs, and 15 INTs.
And he also added over 300 rushing yards and 7 rushing TDs.
Shea didn't set the world on fire but he also wasn't ineffective like some QBs in our recent past.
Dude has been randomly commenting this on all my posts for nearly a year. Before last season I must have predicted that Shea would be 1st team All Big Ten in 2019 (as did PFF, Athlon, and many major publications and pundits). It was apparently such a ludicrous prediction that it has haunted bfffeaverrrs dreams ever since.
Thought there was an mgoblog policy we can only have a vendetta against Maizen or WD. The more you know...
Wow! 100 percent of my predictions always come true - LOL. Some people need to move on and get a life.
If I had predicted that Michael Sessa would be 1st team All Big Ten, now that would have been noteworthy! But Shea was 1st team PFF All Big Ten in 2018 and then broke his rib in the first game this year and still threw for 3000 yards.
Not a hill I would die on, personally.
Hmmm... I'm not so high on Dayvon Young. He's speedy, but he's pretty nondescript in most other ways. He's a good player, but I just don't see him as a standout at the next level.
Looks like Ronnie Bell with better straight line speed to me - elusive, but fights surprisingly hard for a guy his size. His hudl film shows a more developed route tree than other in-state guys. He looks every bit as good as Tyrell Henry to me, who was the first 2022 in-state WR we offered.
The issue with Young, IMO, is not his ability but the fact that his game is similar to a lot of guys that have Michigan offers already. Tyler Morris, Tyrell Henry, and Dayvon Young are all about 6 foot 170 slot types. Can't take 3 of them.
Ron Kramer.
Late, I see.
Still he was great enough a Wolverine to mention twice.
Think how good he would look if he had a QB throwing the ball with some heat ?
South Detroit, yes, but not East Detroit...
Does the midnight train go there?
It leaves there ... for anywhere.
Ultimately tho, it goes to Georgia.
Not called East Detroit anymore, recently renamed itself Eastpointe HS following the change the city made years ago.
I was still working there when the new superintendent changed the name. It was after weathering the state takeover. The community hated the decision and everyone still calls it East Detroit. If you ask a student who has only gone there since the name change, they will all say they go to ED.
Born & raised eastsider. It's still East Detroit.
“Eastpointe” was a sad, transparent attempt to glom onto some of the supposed sociocultural cachet of Grosse Pointe.
Ron Thompson was offered while attending East Detroit.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/sam-kind-has-gut-feeling-ron-thompson-will-commit-michigan-week
Good catch. I only remember him from his Southfield days.
No. But I do know a city boy born and raised in south Detroit.
Please, kid, if you could just do me one favor. Don't wear #14 or I may have panic attacks every time I see you running down the field.