Jake Butt is 50/50 on NFL

Definitely gone in 2nd Round.....if leaving. Best route running TE.

Hard to tell what starting over with new QB means to growth.

He needs Jake Long's input. If my memory is correct, Jake convinced Taylor Lewan to stay for his final year. Emphasizing the unique joy of college life/experience.

There is also the Team, the Team, the Team, and you certainly want to improve you blocking skills before hitting the NFL.

On the otherhand, if you want to get paid now, I don't blame you. Best of luck to you either way young man!

I wonder if uncertainty over QB for next year factors into his decision. 

Maybe not.  An experienced QB could push his value from a 3rd rounder to a top 32, but it's a risk.

a Butt move from Michigan to the NFL would resonate with recruits. 

go and get paid big man.  You'll go within the first 3 rounds for sure.

and gets that blocking even better, he could be early 2nd rounder IMO in 2017. But good on him either way, a pure baller. 

Go Blue!

He could cement himself as the greatest TE in Michigan history with one more year.

Butt receptions: 89
Career record: 132 (Jack Clancy)

Butt yards: 1,066
Career record: 1,919 (Jack Clancy)
 

Buttdowns: 7
Career record: 15 (Jerame Tuman)

My biggest concern is at a blocking level for Butt. He is serviceable in college, doubt he would be at the next level. One more year to sure that up would do him well. But if teams want to take him in the first 3 rounds this year, nothing wrong with that!

Don't blame him one iota if he leaves and probably won't affect his pro career negatively. However his greatest weakness is blocking which can be greatly improved if he sticks around for 1 more year. I think is overall pro career will be better if he spends 1 more year in college learning the finer points of the position, but probably will not change how much money he ends up making. Tough decision for him.

Definitely needs one more year. Wasn't impressed by his stats or his catches.

/s

If this is anything like the video game, there is a 99% chance he stays.

I am for whatever is best for Jake.  If he is a certain 1st rounder, then he should leave no doubt.  He already has had one ACL and he would be risking a certain financial future if he is a 1st rounder and passes it up to play college.  The money is too great these days to ignore.  I said the same thing about McGary going to the NBA.

If Butt goes, then I suspect Ian Bunting and Hill will step up and take greater roles in the passing game along with Wheatleys son if he stays at TE.  Michigan will be fine at TE either way.

Using 2015 draft numbers:

Let's say this year he gets drafted mid- round 3:that gets you around $600,000.

If he waits a year, and jumps to a first round pick, even #32 overall, he gets ~$1.4MM.

So the question is this: how much farther up the board does he think Harbaugh can take him? If he thinks his ceiling is somewhere in the first round, it makes sense, even from an immediate* money standpoint, to wait a year.

*immediate in this case, of course, meaning within the next two years.

CBS has Butt ranked as their top TE prospect in this year's draft. Usually when you're the top pick at a position, you go because you don't know where you'll be next year. Next year there's a chance he could move up in overall draft position, but there's more of a chance IMO that he could be knocked off the position as the top TE prospect in the class. As others has mentioned, a TE can only go so high in the draft and the ones who go in the top half of the first round are very rare. If Butt would go in the second round this year, it's much more of a risk with little reward to not go. There's always personal reasons to do something else, but from a draft position perspective, he be crazy not to go so he can move up at most a round next year. 

MLive ran an article suggesting Wormley is considering going pro too.  To be honest, Butt should probably leave, so should Lewis.  Wormley and Henry should stay.