Spring Roster Overanalysis
They're having the usual press conference and 30 minutes of drills and whatnot today, on the first day of spring practice, but there are a couple bits that have already come down. One is an updated spring roster that's missing Nick Sheridan—who is becoming a GA—and kicker Bryan Wright. Wright would have been a redshirt senior next year; apparently he's taking his degree and heading out. Wright did kickoffs last year, FWIW.
Position changes:
- As expected, Cam Gordon is listed at S. So are Brandin Hawthorne and Teric Jones.
- Mike Jones is listed at linebacker.
- Ryan Van Bergen is listed as a defensive end, providing yet further confirmation that he is the Graham apparent. Steve Watson, who was a quick end last year, is probably headed for strongside DE this year—he's listed at 257 and a DE.
Not a ton we didn't know about there. Roh and Herron are listed as linebackers, but they were listed as linebackers last year.
Significant weight changes:
Player | 2009 | Spring | Diff |
---|---|---|---|
Quarterbacks | |||
Tate Forcier | 188 | 194 | +6 |
Receivers | |||
Je'Ron Stokes | 181 | 187 | +6 |
Jeremy Gallon | 165 | 171 | +6 |
Roy Roundtree | 170 | 169 | -1 |
Junior Hemingway | 220 | 227 | +7 |
Darryl Stonum | 196 | 193 | -3 |
Tight Ends | |||
Martell Webb | 245 | 257 | +12 |
Brandon Moore | 243 | 260 | +17 |
Offensive Line | |||
David Molk | 275 | 270 | -5 |
Ricky Barnum | 275 | 282 | +7 |
Elliot Mealer | 299 | 310 | +11 |
Rocko Khoury | 283 | 291 | +8 |
Patrick Omameh | 276 | 293 | +17 |
Mark Huyge | 288 | 305 | +17 |
Michael Schofield | 268 | 281 | +13 |
Taylor Lewan | 268 | 283 | +15 |
Quinton Washington | 325 | 307 | -18 |
Defensive Line | |||
Will Heininger | 261 | 271 | +10 |
Ryan Van Bergen | 271 | 280 | +9 |
Will Campbell | 318 | 324 | +6 |
Craig Roh | 238 | 249 | +11 |
Anthony Lalota | 256 | 263 | +7 |
Greg Banks | 266 | 274 | +8 |
Renaldo Sagesse | 279 | 285 | +6 |
Adam Patterson | 263 | 272 | +9 |
Linebackers | |||
Kenny Demens | 236 | 244 | +8 |
JB Fitzgerald | 230 | 239 | +9 |
Obi Ezeh | 243 | 240 | -3 |
Kevin Leach | 206 | 200 | -6 |
Isaiah Bell | 220 | 237 | +17(!) |
Mike Jones | 203 | 207 | +4 |
Secondary | |||
Jordan Kovacs | 194 | 200 | +6 |
Justin Turner | 187 | 197 | +10 |
All weight changes, positive or negative, will be portrayed as positive by fluff articles. The names that jump off this list to me are…
- Tate Forcier: slightly less likely to get broken in two.
- Hemingway, Moore, and Webb are now strapping fellows indeed. I can't imagine Hemingway is going to be much of a deep threat at 227; if he is he's going to explode. You can tack freshman Stephen Hopkins in here, too: he's listed at 236. That's a battering ram of a tailback.
- Losing Brandon Graham sucks hard but replacing his 263 pounds with Will Campbell's 324 and tacking on 21 pounds (Mike Martin gained a single pound) elsewhere on the line yields a starting defensive line twenty pounds heavier on average than last year's. The backups all put on six to ten pounds as well, and will presumably get bigger by August.
- The line should be about the same size. Ortmann (284) and Moosman (293) exit and are likely to be replaced by Omameh (293) and Barnum (282). Schilling is about the same size. Molk is actually lighter, though I assume that's an effect of his injury-wracked year and rehab more than a goal. The only presumptive starter who will be a lot bigger is potential RT Mark Huyge, up 17. The new kids will continue to put on weight and Molk should regain what he lost, so overall it will be a little bigger but not by much.
- Schofield and Lewan probably need another year.
- I can't imagine that Michigan actually wanted Leach to get smaller.
- It's good that Michigan is putting weight on Will Campbell now instead of taking it off, right?
This concludes your vastly too detailed review of the spring roster. Carry on.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^
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