The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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time kid," Ray noted. "All he has to do essential. is stay in that weight room, keep run"He needs to play with more consisning, and watch film all summer. tency," Ray said. "He has a lot of po"He and Dymonte Thomas have a tential, and had a pretty good, secondchance of being a nice, all-conference, team all-conference type of season. But pair of safeties he gave up too if they take the many plays when EARLY PROJECTED coaching and they it mattered most. DEFENSIVE TWO-DEEP learn the game." He needs to work FOR 2014 In addition to on his bump-andPos.Player Ht. Wt. Elig. redshirt sophorun, his man-toSDE Brennen Beyer 6-3 250 Sr. more Blake man coverage. Chris Wormley 6-5 289 R-So. Countess and ju"That's what NT Ondre Pipkins 6-3 315 Jr. nior Raymon Tayall those young lor, who started corners need to Ryan Glasgow 6-4 300 R-So. at cornerback for do, work on their DT Willie Henry 6-3 306 R-So. the Wolverines, man-to-man cov Keith Heitzman 6-3 280 R-Jr. Michigan mixed erage so that [deWDE Frank Clark 6-2 273 Sr. in true freshman fensive coordina Taco Charlton 6-6 270 So. defensive backs tor] Greg Mattison 6-3 240 5th-Sr. SLB Jake Ryan Jourdan Lewis will have more Joe Bolden 6-3 225 Jr. and Channing confidence playStribling, among ing man-to-man. MLB Desmond Morgan 6-1 228 Sr. others. "He's stuck in Joe Bolden 6-3 225 Jr. " T h e y w e re a situation where 6-1 220 Jr. WLB James Ross III baptized by fire," he has to zone Ben Gedeon 6-3 236 So. Ray said of the blitz, and every5-10 183 Sr. LCB Raymon Taylor rookies. "They got one is picking up Jourdan Lewis 5-10 170 So. thrown into the his zone blitzes mix awfully fast, now. It's only a SS Dymonte Thomas 6-2 190 So. in key situations. five-man rush. It's Delano Hill 6-0 205 So. Hopefully, they going to be three 6-2 200 Jr. FS Jarrod Wilson learned that every on one side, two Jeremy Clark 6-4 205 R-So. play counts. You on the other, or RCB Blake Countess 5-10 182 R-Jr have to become four strong and Channing Stribling 6-2 171 So. a student of the one weak, and evgame. It's not just eryone is going to physical. It's mental." slide protect. Countess and Taylor are back as cor"That's why they really couldn't get ners for 2014, and the younger players home on [Buckeyes quarterback] Braxwill work to crack the starting lineup. ton Miller, unless he held the ball. It For Taylor in particular, Ray noted, wasn't really by design. It was some bowl practice and offseason work is poor reads that he made." ❏