The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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standards we usually have at Michigan, but on what was a fair expectation for this starting five," former two-year starting offensive lineman David Moosman said. "Their best game was Ohio State and their worst game was probably Michigan State, but the way they played against Ohio State was how we wish they could have played all year because that line would have been good enough." The Wolverines averaged 4.3 yards per rush, totaling 152 yards on the EARLY PROJECTED OFFENSIVE TWO-DEEP FOR 2014 Pos. Player Ht. WR Amara Darboh 6-2 Jehu Chesson 6-3 LT Erik Magnuson 6-6 Logan Tuley-Tillman 6-4 LG Kyle Bosch 6-5 Chris Bryant 6-4 C Graham Glasgow 6-2 Pat Kugler 6-5 RG Kyle Kalis 6-5 Blake Bars 6-5 RT Ben Braden 6-6 Chris Fox 6-6 TE Jake Butt 6-6 A.J. Williams 6-6 WR Devin Funchess 6-4 Drake Harris 6-4 Slot Dennis Norfleet 5-7 Freddy Canteen 6-3 QB Devin Gardner 6-4 Shane Morris 6-3 FB Joe Kerridge 6-0 Sione Houma 6-0 RB Derrick Green 5-11 or De'Veon Smith 5-11 Wt. Elig. 212 R-So. 196 R-So. 295 R-So. 300 R-Fr. 302 So. 316 R-Jr. 273 R-Jr. 287 R-Fr. 297 R-So. 291 R-So. 318 R-So. 338 R-Fr. 237 So. 265 Jr. 235 Jr. 180 Fr. 169 Jr. 170 Fr. 210 5th-Sr. 201 So. 238 R-Jr. 231 Jr. 240 So. 224 So. ground, and allowed six tackles for loss in the heartbreaking 42-41 loss to the Buckeyes. "The Ohio State game was an accumulation of everyone playing well, not just the line, but they played their best game, too," Moosman said. "I didn't think they were technically better than previous weeks, but they gave better effort and I think the scheme and game plan were much better too. "They didn't try five- and sevenstep drops that required five seconds of pass protection. If they had the same game plan that they had against MSU, they would have had the same outcome against Ohio State, but they changed up the plan and played to the offensive line's strengths, and more so avoided its weaknesses. "I don't think the question is why it took the line so long to improve, but why did it take so long for the game plan to fit the offensive line?" Moosman wasn't blaming only the coaches for the struggles up front — many of the mistakes made were the same ones the players had been making all year — but he also doesn't think the game plan favored the offensive line until the final week of the season. "Living out in Colorado and watching the Denver Broncos play so often, Peyton Manning doesn't get hit a whole lot because he gets the ball out faster than the rush can get to him, and that's finally what [Michigan] did," he said. "They threw a lot of screens to keep defensive linemen second-guessing, and that puts them on their heels.