Previously: Podcast 15.0A, 15.0B, 15.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Interior OL. Defensive Interior. Edge. LINEBACKER: LINEBACKING IS HARD Not a Depth Chart Middle Linebacker Yr. Weakside Linebacker Yr. Junior Colson Jr. Michael Barrett Sr. Jimmy Rolder So. Ernest Hausmann So. Micah Pollard So. Jaydon Hood So. It's a fair bet the plurality of position-specific praying in 2022 was for the linebackers. Michigan went into the season with two playable options, one of those a true sophomore who could explode in any direction, and lost the other to a thigh injury for the whole of it. Options past Colson and NHG were Don Brown viper Michael Barrett, RB-ish Brown recruit whom Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and everybody at Michigan's spring game thought better left at RB Kalel Mullings, and freshmen. By the bowl game they were asking a former starting safety to move down. And now? Different story. The twitching ball of azidoazide azide has reached th
It felt inevitable once former star Michigan assistant/Paramus HC/very good LB coach Chris Partridge was returning, but now it appears official. Per Bruce Feldman, current LBs coach George Helow won't be back next year. SOURCE: Michigan and Wolverines LB coach George Helow have mutually agreed to part ways to pursue other opportunities. Helow who arrived in 2021, helped UM rank in the Top 15 in yards per play both YRs and developed Junior Colson into Freshman All-American and an All-Big Ten LB. Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) February 16, 2023 After bringing back Partridge, who spent the last several years as DC at Ole Miss, Harbaugh was one over the assistant limit, so somebody had to go. Helow, a former Ravens assistant who was Mike Macdonald's choice in 2021, seemed the obvious man without a chair. Though the system had something to do with it too, Michigan's linebacker play under Helow hasn't been great. Helow also struggled a bit in recruiting the 2022 cycle