A lot of times when people hear about walk-ons, they don’t tend to take them seriously. However, in order for Michigan football or any program really, to be the best it can be, finding a talented walk-on or two can be vitally important.
Obviously, some of the guys called preferred walk-ons are going to end up doing nothing. Those players aren’t guaranteed a spot on the team and essentially, they are invited by the staff to walk on and then, usually, through some type of academic scholarship, they pay for their own school.
Down the road though, if they play well and move up the depth chart, they can get rewarded with a scholarship, just as a couple of Wolverines were just in the last week or so and coincidentally, three 2019 recruits announced their intention to join Michigan football as preferred walk-ons Saturday, one of them being cornerback Zonterio Weekely.