Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh’s glowing praise of his strength and conditioning coach Ben Herbert has been well documented in recent months. On Thursday, Episode Two of Michigan Made: Football showed just why exactly Harbaugh holds him in such esteem.
“Coach Herb, he’s involved with everybody,” Donovan Edwards said in the episode. “Regardless of if you’re the highest guy on the depth chart or the lowest guy, he’s always gonna give you the absolute best work to make you a better player and even a better man.”
A six-year tenured member of the Wolverines coaching staff, Herbert came to Ann Arbor by way of the Arkansas Razorbacks and Wisconsin Badgers, where he developed the highly successful training program that has produced 95 NFL Draft picks — 12 of which being first rounders — in his career across the three universities.