Name: Aymeric Koumba
Height: 6’5″
Weight: 260 lbs.
High school: Bordeaux (France) Lycee Alfred Kastler
Position: Defensive end
Class: Redshirt freshman
Jersey number: #90
Last year: I ranked Koumba #130 and said he would redshirt (LINK). He played in one game.
TTB Rating: 73
Koumba was very raw coming out of France last year, and it was reflected in the amount of playing time he got: he played in the first game of the year, against East Carolina. Most freshmen aren’t going to play a ton, but especially guys in the trenches who come from Europe.
Not much practice buzz came out of Schembechler Hall about Koumba, but he supposedly got up to 265 pounds this off-season before being listed at 260 on the fall camp roster. He looked thin as a recruit, but now people like Sam Webb are saying Koumba looks like the type of guy you would want to be “first off the bus.” At 6’5″ and 260 pounds, he’s roughly the same height and weight as Braiden McGregor and Aiden Hutchinson, two other guys who would have been “first off the bus” material.
Whether Koumba plays or not is a different story. Michigan’s top three edge players are Josaiah Stewart, Derrick Moore, and probably T.J. Guy, but Koumba might be in the running to be that fourth or fifth guy, along with someone like Cameron Brandt. I wouldn’t expect him to ascend to fourth just yet, but Brandt got 60 snaps in 2023 and Kechaun Bennett got 32. That’s the type of role that Koumba has a chance to fill in 2024.
Prediction: Backup defensive end
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