This is terrible news for anyone planning on standing between Michigan and the goal line next year. Back To Finish What We Started! #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/DHrzxLhW9C Zak Zinter (@zak zinter) January 15, 2023 But it is very good news for Michigan. Zinter is on his way to being one of the best interior linemen in Michigan history after breaking into the lineup as a true freshman in 2020. His incredible size, strength, and agility has made him a key component of the two Joe Moore Award-winning offensive lines since. And he was doing that in 2021 with a club on his hand. With fellow guard Trevor Keegan also back, a third Moore Award is certainly on the table. Michigan now returns starters at three of its five spots on the line, and six of eight who started a game last season. LT Ryan Hayes and C Olu Oluwatimi are off to the NFL, but Michigan brought in ASU T/G LaDarius Henderson, Stanford C Drake Nugent, and Stanford RT Myles Hinton from the portal to compete for the open jobs. They als
Blake Corum is getting one of his favorite blockers back. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Trevor Keegan (@trevor.keegan77) One of our favorites too. Keegan's been a consistently excellent mover of men, a fount of +1s on doubles with Olu this year, and one of the team's favorite pivot men on their power-mad line last year. Both of these lines won the Joe Moore Award. Keegan's return may be interpreted as a further proof of concept for the Valiant group's new One More Year Fund, which also probably played a role in retaining Blake Corum. With left tackle Ryan Hayes joining Rimington and Outland winner Olu Oluwatimi in the NFL, getting back Keegan was a key point of continuity from those two lines. They have two guys who started for them at right tackle, Karsen Barnhart and Trente Jones back, and added two of the best OL in the Pac-12 last year in ASU G/T LaDarius Henderson and Stanford C Drake Nugent, as well as former 5-star Myles Hinton. Michigan awaits