The day after Ronnie Bell arrived at his family home in Kansas City, in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic when Michigan shut down on-campus activities in mid-March, his father, Aaron, wasn’t about to let him sit idle.
Bell, entering his junior season at Michigan as the top returning receiver, and, it appears now, also the leader of the position group, would have been starting spring practice with his teammates back then. Without practice and needing to stay in shape, his father devised a unique plan for Ronnie.
“Second day I was home, he said, ‘We’re going to push the truck,’” Bell said Thursday during a Zoom call with reporters.