OTish: What former recruit do you plan on watching this season?

Submitted by Michigan Eaglet on

In an effort to keep this board college football focused, I wanted to see what former Michigan recruits that we were relatively high on or at least recruited to some degree do you plan on watching this season? This obviously would include former commits as well. This might be just keeping tabs on a player or actually going out of your way to watch a game you otherwise wouldn't just to watch that player. This might give some of us who will be watching several games per weekend this year anyways some additional people to pay attention to.

For me, two come to mind: Kalen Ballage, Arizona State, and JuJu Smith-Schuster, USC.

Ballage I always thought had the size and came from an under recruited area that he could've been good in our offense and this was only magnified by his run last season where he carried a defense over 20 yards for a touchdown.

JuJu just seemed to be such a polished player coming out of high school and getting a 5 star out of California would've been awesome. He was touted more as a safety coming out and now he's being compared as a WR to Dez Bryant by Nick Saban. Hopefully he goes off against Notre dame this season.

What former recruits/commits are you looking forward to watching this season?

In reply to by UM Fan from Sydney

Tater

August 31st, 2016 at 9:01 PM ^

Honestly, I almost don't even remember recruits' names once they go somewhere else.  I do not care about any of them.

SAMgO

August 31st, 2016 at 4:55 PM ^

Saw this topic title and immediately thought Kalen Ballege as well. Dude is an absolute beast, I remember really wanting him as a recruit. If I recall correctly Hoke "cooled on him", which was ridiculous. He'd thrive in this current system.

Bambi

August 31st, 2016 at 4:57 PM ^

I was going to say Brian Cole, I thought I remembered him transferring to Kentucky. But a quick Google search shows he actually transferred to East Mississippi Community College, of Last Chance U fame. Now I'm even more interested in watching the next season of that show, I'd love to see him highlighted there.

As for the OP's question, I'll probably say D'shawn Hand. This should be the first year Hand plays a lot at Bama so I'm interested to see what we missed out on there.

MotownGoBlue

August 31st, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^

Chris Clark, but I don't know which college he attends.

/s

Edit: I think this topic would be more interesting and engaging if it were limited to former players and commits still playing college ball. (I believe Magnus does provide updates, of the former, from time to time).

stephenrjking

August 31st, 2016 at 5:03 PM ^

Mike Weber and Damien Harris. 

I plan on watching them get stuffed repeatedly at the LOS by Michigan's monster DL as we defeat both of them on our path to Glory.