Michigan football 2025 position group preview: Wide reciever
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz continue their 2025 series previewing Michigan football at each position group, with an in-depth look at the Wolverines’ wide receiver room.
They begin with a look at Michigan’s improved numbers at the position, and the efforts the coaching staff put in to improve the room’s depth, size, experience and athleticism. They also look at some of the expected top-one receivers, and what they can bring this fall.
They continue by looking at the question marks of the room, including a debate over how much the room has improved. They discuss a brewing position battle at slot receiver, potential breakout players and set 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. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:06.9 | Steve Lorenz is here with me. This is episode three of our position preview series where we take an in-depth look at all 11 of Michigan's position groups as fall camp gets underway for the Wolverines. |
| 0:20.3 | In each episode, we look at the strengths, the question marks, |
| 0:23.0 | highlights and breakout players, talk about the position battles, |
| 0:26.5 | as well as our expectations for the room this coming season. |
| 0:30.3 | If you missed our quarterback and running back episodes, |
| 0:32.4 | be sure to check those out. |
| 0:34.0 | However you found this one, you can probably find the other ones. |
| 0:37.0 | And obviously, stay tuned for the rest of the position groups. |
| 0:40.4 | This is wide receivers. |
| 0:42.4 | Very interesting room. |
| 0:44.4 | Don't want to sound too harsh, but I don't. |
| 0:47.3 | I think Michigan's wide receiver room kind of bottomed out last season. |
| 0:50.0 | I think if you look at the stats, the 21st century, yeah, it was, this is clearly a room that |
| 0:56.3 | struggled to rebuild last year. And so now they're trying to do it this year. As far as the |
| 1:02.0 | strengths, I, I give Michigan credit for this. They got the numbers up in the room. I remember last |
| 1:07.1 | spring, they had five scholarship receivers. I think one of them was like half walk on half scholarship. I mean, they had five scholarship receivers. |
| 1:11.7 | I think one of them was like half walk-on-half scholarship. |
| 1:14.8 | I mean, they had to modify practices and scrimmage sessions because they just didn't have that many receivers. |
| 1:21.5 | Now I believe they have 12. |
| 1:24.5 | I'd have to look at the full list, and I probably will in a moment. |
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