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September 2015

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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special teams this year, the intent is to make an impact first in the secondary. "I know he's going to play defense, going to play safety, and we'll see what happens beyond that," said safeties coach Greg Jackson, who knows he is working with a special player. "Everything is full speed with Jabrill. When he makes a mistake, he can recover so quickly, it's al- most like he didn't make the mistake. "The sky is the limit for him." Peppers played in only three games a year ago be- fore suffering a right knee injury in week five as he prepared to make the move from cornerback to starting safety against Minnesota. He was eventually granted a redshirt and feels he has been able to hit the reset button on the start on his career. "I'm just a guy that is hungry and wants to lead by example," he said. "I'll do whatever the coach asks me to do, with maximum potential and effort." This is all a little bit much for a player with three games of experience, Skene argues, trying to slow down the abundance of hype fol- lowing Peppers around ev- erywhere he goes. During his career at Paramus (N.J.) Catholic, Peppers carried the ball 373 times for 3,122 yards and 43 touch- downs plus caught 57 passes for 877 yards and 17 scores. PHOTO BY PER KJELDSEN

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