Sherrone Moore details one key area he emphasized in recruiting to evolve Michigan's offense heading into 2025
It's safe to say that the Michigan Wolverines' passing offense last season was a complete and utter disaster. A perfect storm of poor quarterback play, offensive line play, wide receiver play, and scheme all created one of the worst offenses in college football last year. Head coach Sherrone Moore knows that can't continue in 2025 […]
It's safe to say that the Michigan Wolverines' passing offense last season was a complete and utter disaster. A perfect storm of poor quarterback play, offensive line play, wide receiver play, and scheme all created one of the worst offenses in college football last year.
Head coach Sherrone Moore knows that can't continue in 2025 and made it his mission to fix that in the offseason. He fired the play caller, landed two five-star offensive tackles, brought in elite five-star quarterback Bryce Underwood, and dove headfirst into recruiting wide receivers, pulling in several targets in recruiting and the transfer portal.
He went in with a specific mindset for growing and fixing Michigan's offense heading into 2025. One of those was diversifying the body types of his wide receiver room.
In an interview with TheWolverine, Moore revealed that targeting bigger, taller options was a key area he felt like the Wolverines had to target in the offseason in order for their offense to evolve:
"Size was an emphasis for me. I really wanted to add size and length. Really haven’t had a big 6-5 guy since Nico Collins. I’ve said really good players that have played here. Roman Wilson, CJ, all those guys. But wanted some big guys. Just your margin for error for a quarterback, it’s just easy, right? You throw to Colson Loveland and AJ Barner last year. You throw high to a 6-6 guy. It’s different than throwing high to a 5-11 guy. So I wanted to have that variance in our receiving room and felt like we got that with Jamar and Jacob Washington. Andrew Marsh is the runt, but he’s 6-1 and he’s dynamic with the ball in his hands. I got to watch him live. He’s as good as there is in the country in the wide receiver position. Jamar was very under-recruited. Kind of happy that he was because we watched his tape, I don’t know what his rating was. I don’t really care. But he’s an elite player. And then Jacob as well. We had Jacob in camp. Great ball skills. Great runner detail. Great kid. So I feel like we got really good in that room."
Last season, Michigan's tallest wide receivers were the 5'11 Tyler Morris and 5'10 Semaj Morgan. The duo combined for just two contested catches in 2024, a remarkable stat made even worse by their inability to consistently separate.
Moore recognized that and pushed hard to add plenty of size there in the offseason. Transfer wide receiver Donaven McCulley is 6'5, 203 pounds. Incoming freshmen Jamar Browder and Jacob Washington are both 6'3 as well. All of these options should help the Wolverines improve across the board heading into 2025.
