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The Michigan Insider

Michigan football 2023 season preview: Cornerback

The Michigan Insider

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4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their position preview series with a look at the cornerback position. Included are looks at the room's biggest strengths, question marks, position battles, X-factor players, stats to watch and bold predictions for the room.

The episode begins with a look at the position group's high level of athleticism, as well as the young, ascending talent in the room. They then turn their attention to the open position battle for the third starting cornerback spot, and some of the top candidates to know.

In the second half of the episode, they look at potential surprise names to remember for the second half of the season, a stat that can elevate the room from good to great and make bold predictions about Will Johnson and the depth of the room.

Transcript

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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.

0:06.6

I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. We are rolling through our position preview series.

0:13.0

We have eight prior episodes already up on all of our podcast pages, looking at the offensive position groups, as well as

0:22.2

defensive line, edge, and linebacker. This episode is going to look at cornerback, which

0:28.0

you could argue might be outside, maybe offensive line, the most intriguing in fall camp,

0:34.9

just in the sense of different players could be starting.

0:37.9

Different players could be stepping up.

0:39.8

And there's a lot of upside, a lot of potential for this room.

0:43.9

As we do with all of these position previews, we'll look at the strengths,

0:47.1

the question marks, the position battles, X-factor players to watch.

0:51.6

I'll give a stat to watch.

0:52.9

And then we'll make bold predictions for the room.

0:56.2

We have written previews, written stories, covering everything at fall camp over at

1:00.8

the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan at 247sports.com.

1:04.3

So be sure to check that out.

1:05.6

But looking at this cornerback room, in terms of the biggest strength, for me, I came away really, when I just

1:13.5

like started to do, dive into the research, I guess, came away really impressed with the

1:18.4

athleticism of this room. And, and that's, even though they had the fastest man at the combine

1:23.8

last year in DJ Turner and he's no longer on the team. I just, you start looking at

1:29.3

some of these, these testing times. Amarian Walker, everyone knows about his 6.1 second three cone drill.

1:37.3

I believe he had a four, three, and change 40 yard dash time this summer. Kishon Harris won three different state titles

1:47.1

individually out of high school, Jade McBurrows, won a state title in the 4x100 relay in Florida.

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