Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones, G Alessandro Lorenzetti, C Olu Oluwatimi, TE Marlin Klein, TE Colston Loveland, WR Amorion Walker. Bolingbrook, Ill. – 6'0"/175 [via Instagram] 247: 6'0/175 4.42* 4*, 94, #104 overall #18 WR, #4 IL Rivals: 6'0/175 4.34* 4*, 5.9, #155 overall #25 WR, #5 IL ESPN: 6'0/170 4.27* 4*, 82, #19 MW, #180 ovr #24 WR, #5 IL On3: 6'0/175 3.99* 4*, 91, NR overall #45 WR, #9 IL Composite: 4.46* 4*, 0.9462, #133 ovr #22 WR, #4 IL Other Suitors ND, UF, Mizz, MN, PSU YMRMFSPA Ronnie Bell or Golden Tate or maybe Roy Roundtree Previously On MGoBlog Hello by me. Notes AA Bowl (invite). IG. Twitter. Early Enrollee. Film: 7v7 and Junior Highlights: Hudl. 7v7. One of the things we track with recruiting, especially with players who get ranked early, is where the rankings move from there. There's always gravity downward as the cycle reveals more guys worthy of high rankings, but previous rankings tend to be sticky. That means going up usually means they didn't go up far enough, and vice versa, while stagnant slippage is taken to mean no change unless the total slip takes a guy from top-50 to well out of it. When that happens, either they overrated a guy early and don't want to say so, or else the guy got injured, and therefore had no chance to defend his rank. Thus was the case of Tyler Morris, en route to five-stardom, or near enough, through a sophomore campaign of 1700 total yards of offense and 24 touchdowns plus a full winter of camp obliteration. Then his 7v7 and summer camp tours were canceled by the pandemic. His junior season was delayed until the following spring, by which point his quarterback, JJ McCarthy, had bolted to IMG. That suppressed Nazareth's passing attack and forced them to use Morris in other ways, in addition to safety. It was on defense, at the very end of his Spring 2021 campaign, that Morris tore his ACL, canceling another summer of camps and his entire senior season. The rankers didn't wait around, but nor did they forget. Morris was the 2nd-highest recruit in Michigan's class when he committed, and remained so until Moore, Sabb, Clemons, and Berry joined near Singing Day. But that wasn't the expectation. We were bracing for a charge up the ranks, followed by a clash between academics not seen since Newton vs. Leibniz. Except both Michigan and Notre Dame knew they needed to wrap this up before an OSU or A&M or Bama decided they couldn't leave a top-25 talent to some cathelopistemiad that's going to waste good football hours on scholarly pursuits. Instead, Morris's last year in high school would be spent healing, rehabbing, and watching the finds from lost seasons slip ahead of him. On3 moved him *up,* but only to still come out well below the other three. What should have been a triumphant announcement, perhaps coming down to the wire, literally limped in on crutches. That's unfortunate because if you could design the ideal Harbaugh wide receiver recruit from scratch, you'd probably get Tyler Morris. And Michigan certainly acted like it the entire cycle, from Gattis seizing on JJ McCarthy's favorite target with as much zeal as the rest of the program seized on McCarthy himself, to acting like A&M might be lurking around the corner any minute right up to Signing Day. As far as they were concerned, what Devin Bush Jr. was to "solving your problems with aggression," Morris was to Gattis's plans for #SpeedinSpace. Gattis is gone, but his philosophy remains deeply embedded in the offense. While fans like me still covet the long-limbed jump-ballers who wear #1 or #4, the program has spent the last three seasons gearing its passing game around athletes who will lose any cornerback who doesn't have inside help, and make fools out of the help. The trick to these guys, who tend to lead their teams in targets (but not TDs) is the hardest thing to scout, a natural understanding of routes and how to take advantage of space inside the coverage bubble. And yet all we have since 2019 is some 7v7 tape and a condensed junior year in the spring of 2021, half of that on defense. So, [After THE JUMP: Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.]