Previously: Podcast 15.0A, 15.0B, 15.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Interior OL. Defensive Interior. Edge. LINEBACKER: LINEBACKING IS HARD Not a Depth Chart Middle Linebacker Yr. Weakside Linebacker Yr. Junior Colson Jr. Michael Barrett Sr. Jimmy Rolder So. Ernest Hausmann So. Micah Pollard So. Jaydon Hood So. It's a fair bet the plurality of position-specific praying in 2022 was for the linebackers. Michigan went into the season with two playable options, one of those a true sophomore who could explode in any direction, and lost the other to a thigh injury for the whole of it. Options past Colson and NHG were Don Brown viper Michael Barrett, RB-ish Brown recruit whom Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and everybody at Michigan's spring game thought better left at RB Kalel Mullings, and freshmen. By the bowl game they were asking a former starting safety to move down. And now? Different story. The twitching ball of azidoazide azide has reached th