Ann Arbor — Bottom line, Chris Partridge is a coach.
He wasn’t performing that job last year, instead working as Michigan’s director of player personnel. But the guy Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh called a “rising superstar” last December is back in his element, on the field coaching linebackers and special teams.
“It doesn’t get any better for me,” said Partridge, who coached the linebackers in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl after defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin moved to Maryland to become coach. “You attack any role you have. I attacked last year like it was the best role I could ever have.