Michigan football 2023 season preview: Linebacker
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their position group preview series with a look at the linebacker room. During the show, they discuss the room's biggest strengths, question marks, position battles, X-factor players, stats to watch, bold predictions and more.
They open with a look at the returning duo of Junior Colson and Michael Barrett, and why the two can be even better this fall with more depth around them. They also look at where the room can improve, including coverage and behind the line of scrimmage, and discuss how the depth chart shakes out right now.
In the second half of the episode, they look at the ascent of Jaydon Hood, a stat that will measure the room's success this fall, make bold predictions about Colson's junior year and close with some talk on Ernest Hausmann.
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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. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm your host of Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me talking linebackers in this episode. |
| 0:10.9 | This is the seventh, eighth installment of our position preview series that we've been doing. |
| 0:17.9 | And obviously, we have the written stories over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247Sports.com. Well, yeah, we've been doing and obviously we have the written stories over at the michiganinsider dot com michigan dot 247 sports.com but yeah we've been going position group by position |
| 0:25.5 | group previewing the biggest strengths question marks if there's a position battle we'll talk |
| 0:30.9 | about that x factor players stats that we're watching and then make bold predictions for each |
| 0:36.2 | room linebacker room it's going to be a pretty experienced room and and probably deeper than watching and then make bold predictions for each room. |
| 0:42.0 | Linebacker room, it's going to be a pretty experienced room and probably deeper than in years past. |
| 0:43.3 | Junior Colson is back. |
| 0:44.7 | Michael Barrett is back. |
| 0:46.1 | They brought in Ernest Hausman, who was eighth among Power Five defenders and tackles last |
| 0:50.3 | season. |
| 0:51.8 | You know, most of their backups, I should say, are back thinking about Jaden Hood. |
| 0:55.8 | We'll talk about him, I'm sure. |
| 0:57.4 | Jimmy Rolder, Michael Pollard, so on and so forth. |
| 1:01.6 | And then they brought in, what, what about a four linebacker recruiting class. |
| 1:05.7 | So a little bit deeper than usual. |
| 1:08.1 | To me, the biggest strength in this room, though, is especially at the top, to me, it's |
| 1:13.0 | tackling. |
| 1:13.7 | And I think sometimes that gets overlooked as an asset by fans. |
| 1:17.8 | You know, people want to see the sacks. |
| 1:19.3 | They want to see the interceptions, the past breakups on defense. |
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