Not every player can be a four or five-star recruit and over the weekend, Michigan football added some more numbers its roster in the way of preferred walk-ons.
A preferred walk-on is different than someone who just walks on the team for a tryout or whatever. A preferred walk-on generally has other scholarship offers but is asked by the staff to walk-on and the idea is that if the player develops, he earns a scholarship down the road.
This doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Tru Wilson was a former walk-on for Michigan football, so it’s worth noting when these guys are added to the roster and over the weekend, two players announced they would be part of the 2020 class as walk-ons.