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 is here with me. This is installment number seven, I think, of our position group preview series where we look at each of Michigan's 11 position groups in detail ahead of the 2025 season. This one looks at the edge room. We've already done all the offensive position groups in detail ahead of the 2025 season.

This one looks at the edge room.

We've already done all the offensive position groups.

We've also done defensive line.

And in each episode, we look at the strengths, question marks, breakout players, key position battles, and overall expectations for the room.

If these episodes aren't enough for you, be sure to check out our written content over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247sports.com. We got all your bases covered in fall camp. You want inside intel, behind the scene stuff. We've got you. If you want big picture, analytical, what it means type stories, we've got you. If you want the press conference updates, updates we've got you there if you really just want to know about this this 2026 recruiting class

or 2027 we've also got you covered there so yeah pretty pretty proud of what our staff does every

every august i feel like this is this is one of the months where we really shine the most just at all the different skill sets that we bring to the table.

So be sure to check all of that out.

In terms of this episode, let's look at the Edge Room.

Kind of, I was talking to Steve before we hit record, kind of one of the more straightforward position groups on the whole team.

You got T.J. Guy, Derek Moore, as the starters.

You've got Cam Brant and Dominic Nichols as the backups or the rotation,

you know, third and three and four.

Then you've got, you know, two second year guys who have high ceilings is kind of the next up.

And then you got a couple

freshmen. You really only have eight guys in the room. So yeah, pretty straightforward. But let's

dive in. In terms of the biggest strength, I really think it's the pass rushing, the pressure

ability, especially of TJ Guy and Derek Moore last year. they combined for 55 tackles, 13 tackles for loss,

nine and a half sacks, and I think this is the big number, 62 quarterback pressures.

I mean, given Josiah Stewart was also playing there, given, you know, the rotation that they had,

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