(Note: This is part four of a series reviewing Michigan’s 2017 position groups and looking ahead to 2018)
They insisted they were more athletic up front. And they might have been.
But when Michigan entered the 2017 season with three new starters on the offensive line and another playing out of position, things needed to be simple for everything to click.
Instead, the Wolverines chose the opposite. With Tim Drevno (a gap coach) and Greg Frey (a zone coach) splitting offensive line coaching duties, U-M looked like a choppy mixture of two different schemes for half the season.