Michigan football 2025 season preview: Safety
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 34 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 safety room.
They open with a look at the room’s biggest strengths, including the high level of depth that the room possesses, including four safeties with power-conference starting experience and others rising up the depth chart.
They then turn to the question marks of the room, including the returns of Jaden Mangham and Rod Moore from injury, and what Moore’s timeline might look like this fall. They then look at which three safeties make their projected starting lineup, and what each candidate brings to the room.
They discuss breakout players and expectations for Michigan’s top five safeties 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. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. This is our penultimate position group preview episode. |
| 0:12.3 | We're taking a look at the safety room. Our final look at the defensive side of the ball. |
| 0:17.7 | If you're new to these episodes, they're all, they've all been, other than |
| 0:20.9 | offensive line, that was 37 minutes. They've all been like 20 to 30 minutes. They're an in-depth |
| 0:26.1 | look at what we expect from the position group this coming season. We look at strengths, |
| 0:30.6 | question marks, position battles, breakout players, expectations and predictions for the |
| 0:36.9 | room. |
| 0:41.6 | We try to keep them condensed, but also informative as we possibly can. |
| 0:45.4 | If that's still not enough for you, be sure to check out all of our written content over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247sports.com. |
| 0:49.0 | We're covering every base in fall camp, whether it's press conferences, behind-the-scenes, |
| 0:53.8 | Intel, big picture analytical preview conferences, behind the scenes, Intel, and big picture analytical |
| 0:56.5 | previews, the recruiting side of things. I feel like we got a little bit of everything over at |
| 1:01.2 | the Michigan Insider.com, so be sure to check that out. But Steve, we've worked through all of the |
| 1:07.4 | position groups except special teams. We have one more after this. Boy, you know, when I think about the strength of the safety room, I think this is the deepest room on the team. |
| 1:16.6 | I really do. |
| 1:17.4 | I think there's a couple question marks, right? |
| 1:20.3 | Rod Moore is still coming off the injury. |
| 1:23.7 | Jayden Mangum touted transfer last season. |
| 1:27.3 | I think he played one snap. |
| 1:28.7 | I can't remember if it was an injury or something else, but it sounds like he's coming into the fold. |
| 1:33.8 | But then you also have Brandon Hillman. |
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