Grant Perry status????

Redshirts are very common.  It would be foolish to leave right after  redshirt year.  You'd then have to sit out yet another year, which would count against your four.  I'm not buying it without better sources than "some guy told some guy who told me."

"Heard it straight from a offensive player who starts. I hope it’s not true, you don’t find it odd that he couldn’t get a single snap with the most pathetic pass offense in the country! I do. I hope UmBig can chime in."

Speaking as an ex coach, I can, of course, only speak for myself but I think it applies to almost every level except the top where people are getting paid, therefore having proven themselves to be among the best on the planet. in a down year due to poor play or inexperience, with the later normally leading to the former, things operate in an extremely atypical fashion. 

In a decent season where your offense is running smoothly, you can introduce people to game action without fear of negative results. They will happen, of course, but its not as if you expect them. However, in a season such as lasts', I don't think DPJ would have even seen as much play as he did, had it not been for Black's injury. When you are trying to bring along the qb as well as the receivers and both are seeing action for the first time, well all kinds of shit can happen and unless that receiver has proven dependable, it is often not worth the risk. I am sure you will remember the IA game of '16 where a defender simply took the ball out of the hands of all All-Conference receiver who lost focus for just a second. Had this not occurred, UM would have run off 11 straight victories, even with WS's injury.  That is the reason I, as a coach, would not play a receiver, or put the ball in anyone's hand I did not have complete confidence in over the course of a season such as the last. As we saw, if bad shit can happen, it will and its best not to tempt fate.  I know nothing of Martin's practice performances, but it's safe to assume if he were not in the dog house and had, indeed, given Harbaugh even hope of improved performance, he would have seen the field. But under no circumstances is an unproven player going to be put on the field when the outcome is pretty much a given and it's not a desireable one. 

I don't find it odd that he didn't play a single snap.  Michigan took 4 WR in last years class.  Breaking them up into different classes via redshirt is a good idea so in 4 years you aren't losing your 4 top receivers.  I think Nico would have redshirted as well if Black didn't get hurt.  Now you have DPJ and Nico both Sophomores next year and Black and Martin as RS Freshman.  Obviously it changes the numbers a little bit if someone leaves early but you cannot exactly plan for that when a kid is a freshman.