Fifth-year senior left tackle Taylor Lewan (No. 77), a team captain this season, has been an
emotional leader for U-M's young offensive line in 2013.
Photo by lon horwedel
Recruiting Misfires
Handicap Wolverines
Looking at the five recruiting
classes that make up this Michigan
team, there are 14 current scholarship
offensive linemen — 17 were originally signed but Quinton Washington moved to defensive line in 2010,
Christian Pace had a career-ending
injury in 2010 and Tony Posada did
not last his first fall camp in 2011 —
and among the 14, 10 are in their
redshirt (four) or true freshman (six)
campaigns.
Rich Rodriguez signed three offensive linemen in 2009 — Taylor Lewan,
Michael Schofield and Washington
(moved to defense by Rodriguez) —
while he landed just Pace in 2010 (remarkably Pace was the only offensive
lineman to make an official visit).
In the 2011 class, Posada and Jack
Miller had committed to Rodriguez
and remained Wolverines when
