Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things,

Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me.

So this is going to be a defensive depth chart podcast. We'll have a brief update just because we did

hear from Ward Manual today, along with the athletic department's team, head team physician,

and then also their chief health and wellness officer. And so we'll have that. We will discuss

the defensive depth chart, kind of what we did on Monday, looking at the offensive side of the ball,

you know, the starters, the second string,

kind of previewing a little bit of those position battles, taking a look at some sleepers

who might climb their way.

And I think the defensive side way more, maybe not way more uncertainty, but there's more

uncertainty just because, mean i remember i was

talking to steve about it like asking him which which players were playing where even and it's kind

of how how players are moving between the safeties and linebackers and cornerbacks rooms and

and then obviously there's a lot of intrigue because they're going to be looking on some key new

players to step up. But before

we get to that, we will briefly touch on what Ward Manuel said today and what Michigan said today.

And so we don't have a ton to say about it just because it's news. It's not something we really

have an opinion on. If a doctor says, you know, they're doing

this, then I think that's, I would tend to side with that. But they, the football team has

returned to campus. My understanding is that the men's basketball and women's basketball

teams have returned as well. Michigan spokesperson during the call clarified this was,

these were football specific numbers,

...