Michigan football 2025 position group preview: Special teams
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 18 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 special teams room. The episode can be heard in the embedded link below.
They open with a look at the room’s biggest strengths, including the preseason All-American kicker Dominic Zvada, who is coming off of one of the best seasons in collegiate kicker history. They then turn to the question marks of the room, including the uncertainty in a punter position battle between relative unknowns Hudson Hollenbeck and Hunter Robertson.
They close the episode with a look at which players might be most in the mix at punt- and kick-returner, and what to expect from Michigan’s special teams room overall 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. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Rose Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. This is our final of 11 position group preview episodes looking ahead to the 2025 season. |
| 0:17.0 | This one, we're looking at special teams. you happen to miss quarterback running back wide receiver |
| 0:23.0 | tight end offensive line defensive line edge linebacker cornerback safety be sure to check those out |
| 0:30.5 | wherever you got this podcast we'll also put a story over on our site the michiganinsider |
| 0:36.1 | dot com michigan at 247sports.com, |
| 0:38.8 | compiling all 11 together if you do happen to want to just listen to all 11. It's been fun. |
| 0:45.1 | Been fun putting it together. Obviously, we have tons of written content over at the Michigan |
| 0:48.9 | insider.com, Michigan at 247sports.com, including written position group previews. |
| 0:55.0 | But in addition to that, there's also press conference. |
| 0:57.1 | There's insider updates. |
| 0:59.2 | There's plenty of updates from fall camp, from the recruiting side of things. |
| 1:03.5 | I think this August, I think August is really, that's our, I feel like that's when our staff |
| 1:08.0 | really comes together in a way that's just super productive |
| 1:11.0 | and shows off the different ways that we can help cover this team. |
| 1:14.6 | So be sure to check that out and subscribe so you can get all the VIP Intel as well. |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, as we do every position group preview, we'll look at the biggest strengths, question marks. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, breakout player will be special teams always a little bit different just because people have, as the name suggests, specialized roles. But we'll look at some position battles as well and set expectations for the coming season. Steve, it'd be really weird if I led with the strength at special teams that wasn't Dominic Savada, right? |
| 1:45.8 | He's a preseason All-American kicker. |
| 1:48.3 | He really, he made one first team all-American team. |
| 1:51.1 | He probably should have made all five last year. |
| 1:53.7 | He had one of the best seasons in college football history. |
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