Defensive position battles, wide receiver height and more questions

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In an around-the-horn horn episode, we tackle listener questions and other smaller topics. The episode can be heard in the embedded link below.

First, we discuss Ben Mason’s role in Michigan’s offense entering the 2020 season. We explain why it makes sense for Mason to warm up and practice with the Wolverines’ tight ends, how his fullback role changes in Josh Gattis’ offense, how Michigan can still maximize what Mason brings to the table and how he fits in as a senior leader.

Then, we discuss the Wolverines’ wide receiver room, and whether or not Michigan’s lack of height is a significant concern for this season. We look at the Wolverines’ speed at wide receiver, how height has become less of a factor in top receiving rooms around the country, Josh Gattis’ history with receivers of varying heights and which Michigan receivers can play outside this season. We also look at how height factors into the Wolverines’ 2021 wide receiver recruiting.

We close with a discussion on two position battles we’re keeping a close eye on in Michigan’s defense. Along the way, we discuss how high-profile recruits and multi-year reserve players both get unfair expectations laid upon them, the state of Michigan’s cornerback and safety rooms and how we expect the VIPER position shakes out.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. 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. We just did an episode five things Michigan and its fans can feel comfortable about five things maybe that are still existing questions a month before the season.
0:20.3	And so what we're going to do leading up to the season,
0:24.0	because eventually the Friday or Thursday Friday episode will be a preview episode,
0:29.7	but leading up to the season, I thought it would be fun to do Monday, Tuesday,
0:34.8	or earlier on in the week, we'll do a planned content piece.
0:38.8	And then the later episode in each week, we can kind of react to some of the press
0:44.2	conferences and interviews that we took part in.
0:47.0	And then we can also take some questions.
0:49.3	So we will start with the questions.
0:51.9	And we'll start with Derek Fants who says is Ben Mason really working
0:58.5	out with the T.E. Is this a sign that he is super flexible to football player or Jack of all
1:03.8	trades but Master of None? Or is it or is this just false and he is just a good special teams player
1:08.7	and there's nothing wrong with that at all.
1:12.7	Linda also followed up and said,
1:13.7	follow up to this question.
1:16.1	If Mason is really working out with TE's,
1:17.6	is it primarily for blocking?
1:22.6	Is Mason the square peg in the proverbial round hole in Gaddis' offense? So,
1:23.8	didn't realize this was a major topic of discussion. I must have missed that. But no,
1:31.5	this is answered pretty quickly. In the current system, Josh Gattis's system,
1:38.4	whoever, you know, probably just Gattis, fullbacks work out with the tight ends. You know,
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