When looking at Michigan’s recruiting classes as a whole, sometimes it’s able to discern a targeted strategy by the staff for what direction they want to take the program.
Last year’s class is a good example. After a season of their defensive backs getting beat over the top by slot fades, the staff clearly wanted to land longer, rangy athletes to shut that down. They ended up taking five defensive backs in the class of 2018, all of which were at least 6-foot-2.
This year’s theme has to be the versatile athletes Michigan is recruiting on offense.