Michigan Tuesday: Early Signing Day Primer

How busy are the coaches right now? This week includes early signing day, Christmas, and let us not forget playoff prep.   I'm all for an early signing day, but this is a bit ridiculous. 

Tomorrow is the big day and the largest traffic day of the year at your favorite Michigan Blog.  If you've been around for many years, you know I camp out and post all the commitments as they arrive at Schembechler Hall, I'll also post any rumors or speculation that a player may flip to another school or flip to the Maize and Blue.  It's a ton of fun and please join us if you can! 

Key:

🔒 = Locked in commit

👀 = Need to keep an eye on 

To the committed crew:

4-Stars

• Cole Cabana Local RB 🔒
• Evan Link, OT from DC 🔒
• Amir Herring, Guard from West Bloom 🔒
• Enow Etta, DE from Texas 👀 
• Semaj Bridgeman, LB from Philly 🔒
• Nathan Efobi, OL from GA 🔒
• Deakon Tonielli, TE from IL 🔒

3-Stars

• Semaj Morgan, WR from West Bloomfield 🔒
• Adam Samaha, local kicker 🔒
• Brooks Bahr, DL from IL 🔒
• Ben Hall, RB from Georgia 👀 
• Cam Calhoun, CB from Cincy 🔒
• Fred Moore, WR from STL 🔒
• Jason Hewlett, ATH from Youngstown 🔒
• Zack Marshall, TE from CA 🔒
• Rod "Trey" Pierce, DL from Chicago🔒
• Aymeric Koumba, DE from France 🔒
• Kendrick Bell, ATH from KC 🔒
• Hayden Moore, LB from Colorado🔒
• Breeon Ishmail, LB from Cincy 🔒
• DJ Waller Jr, CB/S from Youngstown 🔒

First thing first, we need to welcome Michigan's newest commit Hayden Moore to the Wolverine family.  Hayden is 6'3 210 and a player the Michigan coaches have been targeting for a while.  He visited last weekend and decommitted to Nebraska while he was in Ann Arbor.  On Monday, he committed to the Maize and Blue.  Moore is also a pitcher and might play both sports at Michigan.  Welcome Hayden!!! 

Now let's look at the 👀 players. 

Enow is Michigan's highest ranked recruit in this class and has a ton of offers to places like Alabama, LSU, OK, and Miami.  A few places that will drop a bag to get a recruit.  His social media is all Michigan and retweeting commitments.  I don't think there is a ton of risk here but I will be happy when pen meets paper. 

Ben Hall is an interesting one.  The guy performed well in summer camps but reports are he didn't have the greatest senior year.   Michigan was sniffing around other RB's but might have settled back on Ben after a visit to his home this month.   

This is a solid class, but not one the Michigan faithful is going to go crazy over.  Michigan needs one or two 5-stars in each class.  This one is currently sitting at 0.  There also isn't a QB in this class, which makes sense after you read below and going all in on 2024 Jadyn Davis.  With the portal, having a class like this, plus adding 5 portal guys you've seen play college football, makes a ton of sense.  

Who is left out there?

• 5-star ATH Nyckoles Harbor - plans to sign in February, would be the crown jewel of the class.
• 4-star CB Jyaire Hill left Michigan out of his top 5 on Monday.  He is planning a commit on TV at 4:00 on Wednesday.  Michigan still has a chance here as all the CB's point to the Wolverines. 
• 3-star DT Jamal Howard, another Wisconsin de-commit could take his decision to February as well.
• Another WR and RB 

In other news..........

• Detroit 5-star QB Dante Moore flipped from Oregon to UCLA on Monday.  This is the QB Michigan went all in on and missed by a mile.  That effort probably also killed any hope of Lloyd's grandson going to Michigan.