Jabrill Peppers lined up in the slot for Michigan's offense on a cold day in early November last year. He started in motion before the snap, running behind his quarterback and bubbling toward the sideline. After catching a lateral pass, the freshman cut upfield around one Rutgers defender, plowed through a pair of arm tackles and outraced the Scarlet Knights' secondary to the corner of the Big House end zone.
It wasn't so much the score -- or the fact that Peppers is ostensibly a defensive player -- that led coach Jim Harbaugh to pull his most dangerous and versatile athlete over to the sideline to tell him, "Man, you're really good.