Michigan players have spoken regularly during the past two years about how they believe their new coaching staff’s professional approach to running the team was getting them ready for a future in football. NFL scouts evidently are starting to agree.
Fourteen former Wolverines received invites to the NFL combine at the end of the month, setting a school record and lending some credence to one of the football program's major recruiting pitches. Michigan, which will have more players at the event than any other team, matches Ohio State’s 14-man contingent from a year ago. So add one more data point to the argument that Jim Harbaugh and company are slowly closing the gap on their rival in Columbus.