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Jake Guarnera Has Committed To Michigan Comment Count

Alex.Drain April 28th, 2023 at 5:40 PM

Michigan football has picked up their third commitment of the 2024 class this week in 3* C Jake Guarnera: 

Guarnera is a 6'4", 290 lb. center prospect from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, currently a 3* prospect to the 247 composite. The composite has him 457th, while the On3 consensus has him 412th. Michigan already had four OL prospects in the class, but none profiled as a center, which Jake Guarnera does. Sherrone Moore and Jim Harbaugh zeroed in on Guarnera, tabbing him as their choice of center prospect for this class and closed the deal rather quickly. 

With Guarnera in the class, Michigan still has the #1 recruiting class in 2024, according to several of the sites. They are now up to five players in the OL class, leaving a potential sixth slot open for whatever elite prospect wants to jump on board. Guarnera will get his hello early next week. There is no content after the jump.

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dragonchild

April 28th, 2023 at 7:54 PM ^

457th. . . but Moore wants him.  Someone’s wrong, and I’m betting it ain’t the best O-line coach in college football.

Odd name for a center. I would’ve expected Centenera.

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Blinkin

April 28th, 2023 at 9:25 PM ^

They talked about that a bit on the WTKA podcast yesterday. TLDR - elite OL prospects almost always play tackle in HS, because that's where HS teams put their best linemen. The result is guys who play Center in HS frequently get underrated. Recent history bears that out (Olu originally went to Air Force and Vastardis was a walk-on).

Ruiz was highly rated as a Center recruit, but he went to IMG which is one of the very rare high schools that can play multiple elite linemen. 

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Jordan2323

April 28th, 2023 at 9:52 PM ^

Any other linemen they add now are just gravy on the top. We could lose anywhere from 2 to 7 linemen after this year. I’m hoping it’s just Keegan and Zinter but could include Jones, Barnhart, Hinton, Nugent and Henderson as well. That’s not including any transfers. 

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Jonesy

April 29th, 2023 at 3:00 AM ^

"Michigan football has picked up their third commitment of the 2024 class this week"

I had to read this like 5 times to realize its the third of the week not some completely false declaration that our class so far has only 3 players in it.

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