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Michigan's Chase Winovich brings blue collar, energy to defensive line

Every Michigan player finds something to push himself through the grueling 4-hour spring practices.

Chase Winovich showed his after today's practice, wearing the blue collar workman shirts that Jim Harbaugh got for the players last year.

The choice was functional and symbolic for the redshirt sophomore.

“It’s one of those things that you go into this day and your body’s so banged up and you get out bed and you’re limping or you’re hurting so bad and you’re thinking to yourself, how am I going to practice?” said Winovich, from Jefferson Hills, Pa. “You reflect on my Grandma Grace, who had to work seven, eight jobs throughout three or four years just to try to make money to feed her family that many years ago.