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Visitors: Michigan vs. Army

2020

Myles Hinton – OT – Norcross (GA) Greater Atlanta Christian: Hinton is a 6’6″, 300-pounder who is committed to Stanford. He’s a 4-star, the #7 offensive tackle, and #67 overall. He’s the younger brother of Michigan defensive tackle Chris Hinton, Jr.

Braiden McGregor – DE – Port Huron (MI) Northern: McGregor is committed to Michigan (LINK).

2021

Giovanni El-Hadi – OT – Sterling Heights (MI) Stevenson: El-Hadi is committed to Michigan (LINK).

J.J. McCarthy – QB – La Grange Park (IL) Nazareth Academy: McCarth is committed to Michigan (LINK).

Rodney McGraw – DE – Elkhart (IN) Central: McGraw is a 6’6″, 223 lb. prospect with offers from Boston College, Penn State, and Purdue, among others. He’s a 4-star, the #18 weakside end, and #308 overall.

Rocco Spindler – OG – Clarkston (MI) Clarkston: Spindler is a 6’5″, 285-pounder with offers from Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Ohio State, among others. He’s a 4-star, the #7 offensive tackle, and #40 overall. His crystal ball includes 71% of the picks for Michigan and 14% for Notre Dame.

Caleb Tiernan – OT – Detroit (MI) Country Day: Tiernan is a 6’7″, 265 lb. prospect with offers from Indiana, Iowa State, and Michigan, among others. He’s a 3-star, the #48 offensive tackle, and #461 overall. Right now all four of his crystal ball picks are for the Wolverines.

2022

Nicco Marchiol – QB – Aurora (CO) Regis Jesuit: Marchiol is a 6’2″, 205 lb. prospect with offers from Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, and Michigan, among others. He’s a 247 Sports 4-star, the #2 pro-style quarterback, and #74 overall.

Kaden Saunders – ATH – Westerville (OH) South: Saunders is a 5’10”, 155 lb. prospect with offers from Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, and Penn State, among others.

Nightly Roundup: September 3, 2019

I couldn’t find video of this earlier, but this was the play of the game from my awards post (LINK).

Love the effort by Glasgow. pic.twitter.com/I1CgCHBINo

— Due# (@JDue51) September 2, 2019

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Every Snap Video: Michigan 40, Middle Tennessee 21

I do not believe the video of the defense has been posted yet.

2019 Season Countdown: #1A Shea Patterson

I apologize for the lateness of this post. We (as in the place where I coach) opened our season last week, so as you can imagine, things are pretty hectic.

Name: Shea Patterson
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 202 lbs.
High school: Bradenton (FL) IMG Academy
Position: Quarterback
Class: Senior
Jersey number: #2
Last year: I ranked Patterson #1 and said he would be the starting quarterback with 3,100 yards passing, 23 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions (LINK). He was 210/325 (64.6%) for 2,600 yards, 22 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions; he also ran 76 times for 273 yards (2.6 YPC) and 2 touchdowns.
TTB Rating: N/A

Patterson came to Michigan at just the right time in the 2017-2018 off-season. After a 2017 season in which all the quarterbacks – Wilton Speight, John O’Korn, and Brandon Peters – struggled, the position was in flux. Speight was leaving, O’Korn was graduating, Peters had struggled, Dylan McCaffrey didn’t seem ready, and incoming freshman Joe Milton was thought to be very raw. Without Patterson transferring in, there’s no telling how hot Jim Harbaugh’s seat would be right now. In an alternate universe, does he land a grad transfer? Does McCaffrey start and avoid breaking his collarbone? It could have been ugly.

But it wasn’t. Patterson stabilized the position, even if he wasn’t an All-American. His 22-to-7 TD-to-INT rate was solid, and he made the throws that were there to make. Unlike Speight and O’Korn, he completed deep throws, even if he sometimes left them a little short and gave defenders a chance to tackle after the catch. It has been several years since Michigan had a quarterback who threw a consistent deep ball, probably going all the way back to Chad Henne . . . and he struggled to take anything off the short stuff.

Patterson also managed to run some zone read stuff with aplomb, making several key plays on keepers; that included an 81-yard run against the Wisconsin Badgers and some big chain-movers against Northwestern, among others. Michigan has been blessed with decent-to-great runners at quarterback over the last decade (Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner, Jake Rudock, Patterson), but Patterson might be the best passer of them all.

Going into the 2019 season, Michigan needs Patterson to be healthy and at the top of his game. The running back position has question marks, and so does the defense. The receivers, though, when they’re healthy, are some of the best players at their positions in the country. If Michigan plans to beat Ohio State and make a run at the College Football Playoff, they need Patterson, his accuracy, and his leadership to get the ball where it needs to go in this offense. As hyped as McCaffrey is, we have yet to see him show the ability to sit in the pocket and pick apart a competent defense, even for a short stint. Michigan could still be decent without Patterson, but the games against Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and of course OSU would become much more difficult.

Prediction: Starting quarterback; 3200 yards, 27 touchdowns, 8 interceptions

Michigan vs. Middle Tennessee State Awards

Let’s see more of this guy on offense . . . Zach Charbonnet. The true freshman earned the first start for a freshman in a season opener since Sam McGuffie in 2008. And let me throw out the suggestion that Charbonnet will have a better career in a Michigan uniform (McGuffie had 486 rushing yards, 175 receiving yards, and 4 touchdowns in his one season in Ann Arbor). Charbonnet had 8 carries for 90 yards and 2 catches for 9 yards. He showed some toughness, vision, pass catching ability, pass blocking ability, and a little bit of speed.

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