Michigan Thursday: Gets #12 for the 2013 Class

Michigan kept the commitment momentum rolling with another Ohio player in WR Jaron Dukes.  Jaron has great measurables coming in at 6'5 and 200 pounds and plays his high school football in Columbus, Ohio.  Jaron has been a life long Wolverine fan and is good friends with Michigan commit Taco Charlton.

Jaron is not rated by Scouts, Rivals, ESPN and a 3 star to 24/7.   Which means he is probably a "high" 3 star prospect to all the services.   He will get a chance to up his ranking during his senior season.    The "knock" on Jaron is his speed, but  he is a walking miss-match at 6'5.  His coach says he runs a 4.6 which is pretty fast but that might be deflated by a few points. 


A great example that he can play is that he matched up against Ohio State commit Cam Burrows who is considered a borderline 5 star CB and the top player in Ohio.   Jaron had 6 catches and 173 yards on Mr. Burrows.  Which shows Jaron can play and is also very hard to cover.

His early offer list included: Illinois and Toledo but was getting interest from places like Ohio State, ND, Wisconsin, MSU and others.   He also visited OSU a couple times but did not come away with an offer.  You could say Jaron is a bit under the radar right now but I have a ton of faith in Al Borges ability to evaluate players.  Michigan's last commit from Columbus that didn't have an OSU offer seemed to work out well in Ann Arbor in Tre Burke, so I am excited for Jaron to be on this team and giving Shane Morris a huge target.    I can see a ton of jump ball touchdowns in Jaron's future.   As the Sugar Bowl showed, Michigan needs WR's that cause miss-matches with CB's on size or speed.

Michigan is telling recruits that they will take 3 WR's in this class.  So this is the first commit at that position and probably won't push Treadwell to commit anytime soon.   I am still sticking with 20 total spots in this class right now.   I would not be shocked if it got to say 24 overall.