Michigan football 2025 position group preview: Linebacker
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their annual position group preview series, taking a look at the Michigan football team's linebacker room.
They open with a look at the room’s biggest strengths, including the physical, efficient duo of Ernest Hausmann and Jaishawn Barham, their tackling success, the improved depth of the room and the group’s size and strength.
They then look at some of the biggest question marks of the room, including a look at how some of that depth is utilized, the next steps for Hausmann and Barham and what to expect from the room’s underclassmen. They also look at position battles within the room, breakout players and season expectations for the group 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. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me as well. We are rolling through our position preview episodes where we take an in-depth look at all 11 of Michigan's position groups. By my count, this is number seven in the episode. This is the linebacker |
| 0:22.4 | episode. We'll be looking at the strengths, the question marks, the position battles, |
| 0:27.5 | the breakout players, and then expectations. And when we think we have one, predictions for |
| 0:32.9 | this room. Be sure to check out all of our written content if the podcast isn't enough for you over at |
| 0:38.0 | the Michiganinsider.com. Michigan.247 sports.com. We've got, you know, for our subscribers, |
| 0:42.8 | we've got a lot of behind the scenes, fall camp intel. We've also got a press conference |
| 0:48.5 | stories, stories coming out of what, you know, the coaches and players are saying in fall camp. |
| 0:53.1 | We've got analytical big picture stories similar to this podcast. |
| 0:57.7 | Honestly, we have straight up position previews that have a similar format. |
| 1:01.3 | And then obviously recruiting is always in motion with Michigan football. |
| 1:05.1 | So seeing how that 2026, 27 class comes together, |
| 1:09.1 | I know they've picked up a couple commits this week. So, |
| 1:12.0 | yeah, definitely want to jump on board. I think this is a good month to show what we're all about. |
| 1:16.8 | Obviously, we like to bring it all 24-7, as the name would suggest. But I think August is a really |
| 1:23.2 | good embodiment of all the different moving parts working together. Anyway, looking at this linebacker room, kind of similar to edge. |
| 1:31.0 | It is fairly straightforward in terms of the depth, right? |
| 1:34.9 | They've got J. Sean Barham. |
| 1:35.9 | They've got Ernest Hausman. |
| 1:37.6 | It's kind of like the main two guys back, Jimmy Rolder. |
| 1:40.3 | I think he played more than people realized last season. |
| 1:42.8 | He had 29 tackles. |
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