Michigan football 2025 position group preview: Offensive line
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their position group preview podcast series, taking a look at what to expect from Michigan football’s offensive line this fall.
They take a look at two strengths of the room. Shaw outlines why the Wolverines have two of their team’s better leaders on the interior, and why that can make a difference during fall camp and the season ahead. Lorenz discusses the room’s overall talent level, depth and several players Michigan heavily pursued in recent recruiting classes.
In the question-mark segment, Shaw takes a look at Michigan’s young offense tackle room, while Lorenz ponders just what sort of fifth-year season Giovanni El-Hadi can have. They close the episode by looking at position battles brewing at left tackle and right guard, there choices for breakout players this fall, and where they would expect to rank this offensive line nationally this fall.
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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, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. This is our fifth installment of our 2025 position group preview series. |
| 0:13.6 | We've already talked about quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. This episode will look at the offensive line. |
| 0:22.3 | If you're new to the series, |
| 0:27.8 | it's a really succinct way to get to know this team at a high level. I think each episode is between 20 and 30 minutes, but we do go pretty in depth. I think we're talking second string, |
| 0:33.0 | third string, all the little position battles here and there. And of course, the starters and the |
| 0:37.1 | new names to know, the new faces. |
| 0:39.9 | We discussed the strengths, the question marks, breakout players, position battles, and overall expectations for the room. |
| 0:48.6 | If this isn't enough for you, there's plenty of written content, including my own position preview articles over at the Michiganinsider.com, |
| 0:55.7 | Michigan.247 sports.com. We also have behind the scenes stuff about fall camp. We have press |
| 1:00.8 | conference stories. We have recruiting intel. Yeah, pretty much all your bases are covered this |
| 1:06.7 | month at fall camp over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247 Sports.com, so check that out. |
| 1:13.2 | But yeah, this episode's looking at the offensive line, and there's a few moving parts. |
| 1:18.4 | There's a couple position battles that are up for grabs. |
| 1:21.2 | But in terms of the biggest strength of the room, I think it's really the two guys they have |
| 1:25.5 | returning on the inside. I think GOL Hadi and Greg Crippen, I mean, not only are they returning starters. |
| 1:30.8 | They are truly experienced veterans and leaders. |
| 1:34.7 | I think both of them have a pretty good shot of being named captain later this month. |
| 1:39.2 | I don't know if both will be. |
| 1:40.7 | It depends on how many captains they go with. |
| 1:43.7 | But yeah, these are two guys who |
| 1:45.7 | who've been around a while. I mean, when they arrived on campus, Michigan was coming off at two |
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