The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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52 THE WOLVERINE ❱ APRIL 2026 ❱ MICHIGAN RECRUITING He needs to take another close look at U-M this spring. Burrell, the nation's No. 77 recruit out of Chicago Mount Carmel High, will return to Ann Arbor April 2 for his first visit since the fall, building new connections after the pro- gram's coaching change. "Now, I've got to figure out who these other people are," Burrell said. "I've got to take a little bit more time and inves- tigate that, see the differences — if it's better, if it's worse. I feel like I just have to go see for myself because he could tell me whatever but, at the end of the day, I've got to go see it." Simon explained his philosophy for cross-training wide receivers and scheming them open during his dinner with the Burrell family. He remained in contact with the top-ranked recruit in Illinois after that and built the founda- tion for a solid connection with the elite receiver target. "He's a cool dude," Burrell said. "He's a little bit younger. He could connect with the guys a little bit more. We talked a little bit of ball. I liked his thought process on that." Burrell included Michigan in his re- cent top-10 list alongside Notre Dame, Arizona State, LSU, Nebraska, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Miami, Indiana and Okla- homa. He said earlier that the Wolver- ines remain "one of the top schools" in his recruitment. The nation's No. 6 re- ceiver did not want to rule the program out just because of the coaching change. He will continue to narrow down his recruitment during a spring visit tour that includes stops at all 10 of his con- tenders. At Michigan, he wants to see a revamped passing attack from the Wol- verines. "I've got to see them throw the ball a little more," Burrell said. "I've got to see them be able to have a difference in that passing game, probably a little bit more different style of the passing game. "Michigan is known for running the ball. Not saying that's a bad thing, but you've got to have a little bit of a bal- ance there." Burrell visited the Wolverines twice last fall. His sister Kali plays soccer for Michigan, so he is extremely famil- iar with the university itself and life as a student-athlete in Ann Arbor. He knows what the school has to offer as a football program, but he needs to bond with this new era of U-M football on a personal level. "I've been up there, so it's not more of the facilities, the material part of things, it's more of how they conduct practice, how they conduct weight training. If they're keeping the same staff with that and the nutritionist, more of the prac- tice style, the meeting style, how the head coach interacts, how the coordi- nator interacts, how everything trickles down," Burrell said. The 6-2, 195-pound receiver does not have any official visit plans yet, and he won't rush to set any. Burrell will take a maximum of five OVs, and these spring visits will help him determine who makes it to the next stage of his decision-making process. ❏ Chicago Mount Carmel receiver Quentin Burrell, the nation's No. 6 wide receiver, recently included Michigan on his top-10 list of schools under consideration. PHOTO BY ETHAN MCDOWELL