Dan Samuelson, Ex-Wolverine

Dan Samuelson, Ex-Wolverine


August 15, 2015

Dan Samuelson

Redshirt sophomore offensive guard Dan Samuelson has decided to transfer. I had ranked him at #79 (LINK) in the 2015 Season Countdown, so you can see I was not counting on him to be a major factor this year. When he flipped from Nebraska to Michigan in January of 2013, I gave him a TTB Rating of 65 (LINK). I did not see him as the caliber of player that Michigan should have been recruiting at that stage, and I had been hoping that the Wolverines would be able to reel in Cameron Hunt, who eventually signed with Oregon and has been a two-year starter for the Ducks, including seven games as a true freshman.

Michigan took six offensive linemen in that 2013 class, and Samuelson is the third to leave, joining Kyle Bosch (now at West Virginia) and Chris Fox (now on medical scholarship). That monster offensive line class has now been whittled down to David Dawson, Patrick Kugler, and Logan Tuley-Tillman, none of whom have made an impact yet. But out of 27 signees in that cycle, only four have left so far – those three linemen and wide receiver Csont’e York, who got into some legal trouble in Ann Arbor.

With three open scholarships and thirteen seniors scheduled to graduate following the upcoming season, Michigan’s 2016 class technically has 16 spots right now.

2 comments

  1. Comments: 262
    Joined: 8/12/2015
    Painter Smurf
    Aug 16, 2015 at 10:31 PM

    I am with you… I liked Hunt and think he would have signed had Hoke not preferred Samuelson late. Perhaps Hunt would have been UM’s starting C, allowing Glasgow to play RT. I was under the impression that Hoke preferred Samuelson because he was supposed to be huge. But he did not turn out to be all that big. Oh well. We should have known this OL class was going to hit some bumps when they made LTT their top OL priority, despite the fact that he looked like a major project.

  2. Comments: 6285
    Joined: 8/11/2015
    Lanknows
    Aug 17, 2015 at 12:16 AM

    This is why I keep saying, every damn year under Hoke, that we need more OLmen. Even when you take a 6 person class, attrition will widdle that number down. That’s just the way it is with linemen in a pro-style system. No matter what a kids ranking, there’s about a 50-50 chance he doesn’t start for you.

    If you bring in a freshman and he looks like he’s going to be a 4-year starter, you can take the foot off the gas a bit (e.g., Long, Schilling, Lewan, Cole) but otherwise you have to keep getting numbers because most linemen are going to spend a year red-shirting and many will take even longer to fill out physically.

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