Mind-blowing WR statistics from 2017

Watch the Florida game from last year and then watch the Minnesota or Indiana game. There is a dramatic contrast in terms of both personnel and gameplan. The Michigan coaches basically scrapped the spread passing game and quit using their wide receivers after Speight and Black got hurt. Once the coaches realized that the quarterbacks on the roster weren't good enough to execute the passing game that Pep wanted to run, they went hyper-conservative with extremely heavy sets and multiple tight ends used on every play. Midway through the season, I think I even remember Brian pointing out that we were running several plays with just one wide receiver being sent out on a route. So these numbers need to be interpreted in context. Michigan basically replaced their wide receivers with tight ends after the first few games of the season. The fact that most of our wideouts were true freshman only exacerbated things.