The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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16 THE WOLVERINE ❱ SEPTEMBER 2025 ❱ INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS NUMBERS AND QUOTES BY CLAYTON SAYFIE 2 Michigan football players landed on The Athletic's 2025 "Freaks List ": senior tight end MARLIN KLEIN at No. 35 and sophomore defensive tackle Manuel Beigel at No. 62. Coincidentally, both Wol- verines on writer Bruce Feldman's list of the top athletes in the sport hail from Ger- many. Feldman reported that Klein ran a 6.89-second three-cone drill, better than former U-M teammate Colston Loveland, and a 4.25-sec- ond shuttle time that would've been the fastest by any tight end at the 2025 NFL Combine. He also revealed that strength coach Justin Tress said Beigel "weighs 315 pounds and moves like a linebacker," while having posted the best reactive plyo stairs time in the program (2.64 seconds). 8.5 Is the over/under win total for Michigan foot- ball in 2025, set by Bet- MGM. According to the sports book, the under on the Wolverines is one of the most-bet win totals in college football leading into the season. 85.7 Winning percentage for Michigan football since the start of the 2021 season, going 48-8. That mark ranks second among college football teams in that stretch, behind only Georgia (91.4), according to College Football Report. The rest of the top 10 are Ohio State (85.5), Oregon (81.8), Alabama (81.8), Notre Dame (80.0), James Madison (75.7), Ole Miss (75.0), Penn State (74.6), Clemson (74.1) and UTSA (72.2). The Maize and Blue have a 9-2 record against teams in the top 10, including a 9-0 mark versus Ohio State (4-0), Penn State (3-0) and Alabama (2-0). We've been challenging our defense. And to have that competitiveness with our defense, we play against the best defense every single day. To go against those guys and have that competitive juice, this is going be one scary team. … It's just fun. It wasn't like this last year." — Sophomore running back Jordan Marshall on the offense in fall camp Bryce can do it all. He can run. He can throw. No matter how far it is, he's going to throw it. You have to stay on your guy, just be as close as you can to the receiver, because he can make any throw — back shoulder, over the shoulder, it doesn't matter what it is." — Senior defensive back Zeke Berry on freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood We have a lot of expectations. We don't want to limit ourselves on anything. But the ultimate goal is a national championship. If we win a national championship, we know we did everything we had to." — Graduate defensive tackle Rayshaun Benny The sky's the limit for that kid. I've seen quite a few QBs throw the ball. I've seen [former Clemson star] Trevor Lawrence — I was at The Opening like 50 years ago with him and [former Georgia and Ohio State quarterback] Justin Fields. I've seen all those guys … that was my class. I've seen a lot of good football throwers, and I've been with Mike Penix at Indiana, obviously J.J. McCarthy here at Michigan. And I would say [freshman] Bryce [Underwood] is at the top with the best of them, and probably throws it better than a lot of those guys — which is scary to say, because he's so young." — Former Michigan quarterback and support staffer Jack Tuttle on the "Locked On Wolverines" podcast PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL PHOTO BY JEFF NGUYEN/DETROIT LIONS 93 Overall rating for former Michigan defensive end AIDAN HUTCHINSON in the initial release of Madden NFL 26. The Detroit Lions star is returning from a season-ending leg injury he suffered in the first half of the 2024 campaign.