Michigan football 2025 position group preview: Defensive line
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their 2025 position group preview series, turning over to the defensive side of the ball and looking at Michigan’s defensive line room.
They open by looking at the strength of the room, highlighting the Wolverines’ exceptional size in the room, as well as plethora of college-ready players to hold down the key positions. They also discuss Rayshaun Benny’s star potential, as well as a seemingly strong core of six rotation players.
They also look at some of the biggest question marks of the room, including how much or little drop-off there is in Michigan’s six-man rotation, an intriguing former five-star prospect who transferred in and other curiosities. They close by looking at two potential breakout players, discussing if anyone else can crack the rotation and setting expectations for the room in 2025.
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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 Lorenz is here with me. This is, we're switching over the defensive side of our position group previews. This episode looks at the defensive line, the big guys up front, some big strengths, some big question marks, some big position battles, some big breakout players. |
| 0:23.7 | I think you're sensing a theme here. |
| 0:25.6 | If you miss any of our offensive position group previews, check those out probably |
| 0:29.2 | wherever you got this one, but also at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247sports.com. |
| 0:34.8 | We've also got tons of written content about fall camp. |
| 0:37.6 | We've got insider notes. |
| 0:39.7 | We've got press conference stories. |
| 0:42.4 | We've got analytical stories looking at the season ahead. |
| 0:45.9 | And recruiting, of course, is always in motion when it comes to the Michigan football team. |
| 0:50.6 | So be sure to check all of that out. |
| 0:52.7 | Looking at this defensive line, as we do with |
| 0:55.7 | every episode, we'll look at the strengths, the question marks, the breakout players, position |
| 1:00.1 | battles, expectations for the room this coming season. Strength, it's, Steve, I mean, |
| 1:06.9 | it's, it's really hard not to just say that the sheer size of this room. |
| 1:11.8 | In Michigan's latest roster update, they had 11 defensive linemen over 300 pounds, |
| 1:19.1 | and they had eight over 310 pounds. |
| 1:23.2 | I'd be really curious if there's a football team of any level in the country that has that. |
| 1:28.4 | Because, you know, the NFL teams, and they're 53-man rosters, they're not carrying 11 defensive linemen usually. |
| 1:35.3 | And certainly not all 11 are going to be 300 pounds. |
| 1:37.6 | And 8 over 310, maybe there is an NFL team that has that. |
| 1:41.9 | But I'd be really curious if it was a college team that has it i mean |
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