The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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football recruiting issue you can have a very active front four, and then when you get to those passing situations, be able to move those ends down inside and then bring in your faster guys on the outside. It���s not a hard substitution. They can still hold up on a run, because they���re used to playing it, but they���re just a little faster. ���Henry is one of those guys who will be a really, really good five-technique defensive end, then in passing situations be able to move down inside and be a load inside.��� Biff Poggi ��� for all his blunt warnings against a sense of entitlement ��� knows his son can live up to the U-M coordinator���s assessment, because he���s seen it himself. He watched Henry go head-to-head in the Big 33 contest against Grant Hill, one of the top prep guards in the country, who is now headed to Alabama. In the Gilman coach���s eyes, that was a Hill his son conquered. ���Grant really couldn���t block him,��� Poggi said. ���I thought that was the kind of thing that really showed me he was getting ready to go to the next level.��� Beyond the physical skills, Poggi explained, his son possesses the sort of football mind that will quickly absorb what Mattison dishes out. Michigan���s defensive scheme won���t be completely foreign, either. ���He���s very intelligent,��� Poggi said. ���He will learn the defense. He will know where he���s supposed to play, and what he���s supposed to do, every