Predicting Michigan's breakout players in 2021
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the Michigan football players we think have the most breakout potential in the 2021 season.
We begin by looking at the offensive skill positions, where we think the Wolverines have the most breakout-capable players on the team. We discuss each of our top two candidates — Cornelius Johnson and Blake Corum — and why we're as high on them in 2021 as we are. We also discuss the coaches' affinity toward Erick All and Mike Sainristil, and how we weigh that heading into their junior seasons. Along the way, we also mention a couple rising sophomore receivers we're optimistic about.
Next, we look at the defensive side of the ball, discussing both returning starters and two-deep newcomers. We lament Michigan for not giving more defensive underclassmen more run last season, and discuss the position groups where we think there are more talented breakout candidates than others. We close the discussion by turning to the offensive line and assessing new breakout candidates up front.
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| 0:29.8 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things. |
| 0:34.1 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm your host, Sack Shaw. |
| 0:37.1 | Steve Lorenz here with me. This episode is going to be looking at the biggest |
| 0:42.3 | breakout candidates for the Michigan football team in 2021. Going to be going through all the |
| 0:49.6 | different position groups, not group by group, but more player by player looking at the players who we think |
| 0:55.0 | based off of either what we saw in high school, what we saw from them last season, |
| 0:59.8 | or kind of what we're hearing from the football program itself, players who will emerge |
| 1:06.2 | as breakout players. |
| 1:09.6 | For this year's version, where we are counting people or players who started |
| 1:14.9 | last fall just because it was a shortened season but we're kind of keeping an eye on players |
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