Michigan football spring check-in: Top position battles, players on the rise to watch

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz check in on the Michigan football team after a handful of spring practices, assessing where the Wolverines stand in key areas such as position battles, breakout players and more.

They open with a look at the general first impressions — both in press conferences and behind the scenes — about spring practices under the Wolverines’ new coaching regime. They discuss the organization and experience being higher than in past years, as well as the blend of coaches and players.

They next look at key position battles they’re watching closely this spring, on both offense and defense. They continue with a look at potential breakout players with the most to gain this spring.

They close with a look at special teams, strength and conditioning and other storylines they’re looking at entering the second half of spring practices.

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0:30.3	Hello everybody.
0:30.8	Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.
0:36.5	I'm your host Zach Shaw.
0:37.4	Steve Lorenz is here with me. We're going to talk spring football. We obviously did our
0:42.2	storylines to watch for the spring right before spring practices started. This is going to be, I guess,
0:48.3	an updated episode a couple weeks into spring practice. Some of the topics we're going to look at. We're going to look at
0:55.4	obviously first impressions of spring practices so far. Michigan, they don't have open practices,
1:00.5	but obviously a few coaches have been made available. And then obviously we can work the sources
1:05.3	behind the scenes. We'll also look at position battles that we're, I guess, putting a magnifying glass too on offense and defense that are interesting to us.
1:15.6	Players with a lot to gain this spring.
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