2021 Michigan football season preview: Offensive line
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our positional season preview series, we take a look at Michigan's offensive line, previewing the position battles, depth chart, strengths, weaknesses, questions and making a bold prediction on the Wolverines' front for the 2021 season.
We begin by taking a look at position battles, as Michigan returns seven players who started up front in 2021, leading to technically three position battles. We assess the competition level at each spot, how the Wolverines could move layers around to truly come up with a 'best five,' and why Michigan may wait longer than usual to decide its starting five up front.
We then turn to the group's strengths, looking at the line's depth, size and potential ability to move the line of scrimmage more this year than last season. We also look at weaknesses up front, including some pass protection concerns and a lack of experience and proven production. We then offer our biggest questions about the group, then make prediction for the line's outlook this fall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast or audio source Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. You can read all of our stories leading up to the 2021 season over at the Michigan Insider.com, Michigan.247 Sports.com. So if you have missed the previous three, we are doing a series of shorter episodes, |
| 0:22.0 | at least that's our goal, previewing Michigan's 2021 season at each position group. |
| 0:28.4 | We will look at the depth chart and the position battles that exist. |
| 0:31.8 | We will look at the biggest strength of the group in each of our minds, the biggest weakness. |
| 0:36.3 | A big question mark if it isn't also the weakness. |
| 0:39.9 | And then make a bold prediction for the group. |
| 0:43.7 | So we've done quarterbacks, we've done running backs, we've done wide receivers and |
| 0:46.7 | tight ends. |
| 0:47.6 | You can go check those out wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:49.9 | You can also go check it out at our website as well on our podcast page. |
| 0:54.9 | This episode, we are taking a look at the offensive line. |
| 0:59.8 | So we'll start with the depth chart. |
| 1:02.2 | They have Steve seven guys who started last season. |
| 1:06.1 | I think it might be seven guys who started multiple games even. |
| 1:11.5 | Anyway, they returned a lot of talent. |
| 1:13.1 | Really, the only player that they lost, if I'm not mistaken, was just Jalen Mayfield. |
| 1:18.1 | Everyone else is back. |
| 1:21.0 | And of all the position groups, I think this is the one with the most positioned battles. |
| 1:29.5 | Some of them are like interchangeable. |
| 1:32.1 | Jim Harbos talks about this. |
| 1:33.5 | They feel like Zach Zinter and Andrew Stuber are two guys who are pretty much, |
| 1:39.3 | they're going to start one way or another. |
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