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The Michigan Insider

2021 Michigan football season preview: Running back

The Michigan Insider

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4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our series previewing the Michigan football team's 2021 season at each position, we look at the depth chart, strengths, weaknesses, question marks and make bold predictions for the Wolverines' running back room.

In looking at the group's depth, we discuss the value of a three-back rotation, elaborate why all three backs could start in any given situation and assess the battle between Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards' similar roles. We then turn to the position group's strengths: Shaw takes a look at the physical strength of the room led by Hassan Haskins, while Lorenz outlines that Michigan should benefit from multiple years of landing its top recruiting targets.

We also look at the room's weaknesses, taking a peak at Michigan's lack of a home-run hitter at running back, improvements to be made in vision and maybe some concern over a diluted rotation and limited carries. We also ponder what Edwards could bring in year one.

We close with our predictions, looking at who might lead the Wolverines in rushing yards and how we think the position group will stack up compared to other position groups on the team and in recent Michigan running back history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:00.8

Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.

0:06.7

I'm your host, Zach Shaw, Steve Lawrence, here with me.

0:08.9

If you missed our last episode on the quarterbacks, we are doing a series of shorter episodes, kind of running through all the different position groups, looking at the biggest strengths, the weaknesses, position battles, biggest

0:22.3

question marks, and then making some predictions for the 2021 season. So hopefully you guys like

0:31.1

them. You know, you can go binge them wherever you get your podcast. They're pretty digestible.

0:36.2

Maybe it's maybe you might listen to the whole thing in your work commute or, you know, while you

0:40.1

mow the lawn or or whenever you listen to your podcast. So this, this episode is going to

0:45.3

look at the running back's room. Steve, I think the depth chart at running back is kind of

0:52.3

irrelevant. I mean, I could not tell you who started which game over the past three seasons.

0:59.5

It just, it really doesn't matter.

1:00.8

It's, it's, they're going to give the ball to the players who are doing well.

1:04.7

I think there's something to be said for the hierarchy.

1:07.9

And in which case, I would say that it is Hassan Haskins, Blake Corum, Donovan, Edwards, for now.

1:14.6

And if things change, then things change. So not too much to say about Dept's chart.

1:19.6

I do think it will be an interesting battle just because there's some overlap in their roles.

1:27.1

Blake Corum versus Donovan Edwards, two very talented recruits.

1:32.1

We'll talk about the strengths of the group in just a moment.

1:35.1

But any thoughts on the significance or kind of the quasi battle between Corum and Edwards,

1:43.7

just because they both can catch passes.

1:46.1

They both have a lot of breakaway speed.

1:48.2

I think they're both, you know,

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