Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Michigan Tuesday: Transfer Portal Prospects Are Visiting

Michigan has its eyes on 3 transfer portal prospects and all 3 are expected to visit Ann Arbor this week. In fact, two are currently on campus right now. 


  • Upton Stout, DB from WKU.  Michigan would be his 3rd school as he started at North Texas.  He is 5'9 and 185 pounds and would be looking to fill the Mikey role.  24/7 has him as the #33 overall in the portal and #3 DB. He is on campus this weekend. 
  • Jaishawn Barham, LB from Maryland.  Is from a HS that Michigan fans might know, St. Frances in Maryland.  He is a sophomore and played two years already for the Terps.  You might remember him from the Michigan game, he was wearing #1 and picked off JJ in the end zone.  24/7 has him the 88th player in the portal and #3 LB.  He is also on campus right now. 
  • Joey Slackman, DL from Penn.  Joey is 6'3 and 300 pounds and rated the 22nd player in the portal and #3 DL from 24/7.  He is getting a number of offers and is expected to visit Ann Arbor this weekend.  

A guy we thought Michigan might be interested in Thor from Harvard, committed to Louisville this weekend.  Thor can play but I'm not sure if he had a Michigan offer or not.   I think we all can agree we wanted a guy named Thor from Harvard. 

Michigan also lost its first player in the portal when CJ Stokes jumped into the portal on Monday.  CJ showed some flashes at Michigan but was quickly falling behind the guys on the roster and Michigan has 2 high profile RB's coming in the next class.   A transfer now makes a lot of sense for him.  I hope he lands at his hometown school South Carolina. 

  • MSU's new staff will have to rebuild the entire roster as Sparty's best player Maliq Carr is in the portal. 
  • What is going on at Nebraska?  Did they find a pile of money?  OSU transfer QB Kyle McCord visited and now there are reports they might flip #1 QB in the 2024 class Dylan Raiola who is committed to Georgia. 
  • Zak Zinter was named 1st team AP All American, Corum and Jenkins were named to the 3rd team. 

3 comments:

BlueManGroup said...

Well.....Warren Buffett does live in Nebraska....

Brady2017 said...

Re Nebraska; Follow the money

Rudy said...

Wasn't Rhule just whining about having to pay $millions for a QB? Now he has two different 5-star QBs and a 5-star WR visiting? These coaches that bitch the loudest (see alsy Day and Franklin) are themselves deep into the "game" played to lure the best. And know that many of these kids jump in the portal cuz they get solicited before they even thought about the portal. Best of luck to NE but they've had a few decent QBs transfer there only to be less than they were prior to coming.