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Portal In: Jaishawn Barham

Michigan earned their first commitment from the transfer portal on National Signing Day, bringing in LB Jaishawn Barham from B1G East rival Maryland. Let's get to know Barham using some of the tape accumulated from two years of FFFFs and what others are saying: As a recruit Barham was a member of the class of 2022 recruiting cycle, hailing from District Heights, MD, and attending St. Frances Academy in Baltimore. His HS career began with Barham attending DeMatha Catholic and ended at St. Frances, a journey that saw him dip his toes into two of the biggest brands in national HS athletics. Barham was a prized recruit, ranking 119th in the 247 composite, 10th among LBs and 3rd among players in the state of Maryland. Opinions of him were quite favorable, as you'd expect. Here's Brian Dohn of 247 on his eval of Barham, the recruit: Good frame with ability to add mass and size. Plays outside linebacker in high school but style is suited to move inside in college. High level athlete with elite change of direction ability. Very good at sifting through traffic in the box to locate ball carrier. Hits gaps quickly. Highly active in running game and pursues well. Has understanding to stack and shed. Sure tackler with closing speed. Has excellent body control in space. Strong with his depth drops in coverage and is comfortable in space The negatives Dohn would go onto cite was a need to bulk up and improve as a blitzer and in man coverage. Here was the take from Rivals' Adam Friedman: Barham is a big, explosive linebacker that can cover a lot of ground for his size. He has good instincts and doesn't have a problem finding the ball carrier. Barham is a physical tackler that can cause fumbles or caused receivers to drop passes. He does a nice job of disrupting running back, tight ends, or receivers while they're in their routes Friedman went on to note that he was high on Barham's blitzing potential, a bit sunnier than Dohn you might say. The general consensus between the various scouting reports on Barham was that he was a big-frame LB (at the time listed at 6'3", 230), fast, physical, loving to tackle and hunt the ball in run defense, capable of moving in space as well as anyone. There were some questions about the refinement of his technique in various areas of the game, but the upside and athletic package was largely undeniable. Those physical gifts made him an obviously attractive recruit, gifting Barham his top 150 ranking. All four services had him in the top 300 and all but On3 placed him inside the top 150. Barham was a legitimate blue chip and coming from a national power in St. Frances, there was plenty of interest. He took official visits to four schools, PSU, South Carolina, Maryland, and Oklahoma, with his recruitment coming down to two of those four, South Carolina and in-state Maryland. The final period was a whirlwind, with Barham committing to South Carolina on Saturday, December 11, 2021, but then flipped to the Terps just four days later, on Wednesday, December 15. [AFTER THE JUMP: How he did in college and the fit at Michigan]

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Hello: Jerod Smith | mgoblog

Ah, the good ol' days. Remember those days? Don Brown would roam around the Northeast, punking Notre Dame for underrated DE/DT tweeners who play against law firms on the sets of Harry Potter movies, but only after Brian Dohn and wonderful Irish reporters like Tim Prister and Kevin Sinclair left us with our fill of detailed and accurate scouting? AGTG🙏🏿 Ann Arbor I’m Home 〽️@Hayesfawcett3 @Coach_Mella pic.twitter.com/6eKo50vPfb — Jerod Smith (@Jerodsmith44) April 25, 2023 Those days are gone. Behind the colonial architecture and hillocks, the Smith Twins are military kids from Kentucky who've lived in Japan, and "go home" to Carolina where their Marine dad is now stationed. They also just switched from one elite boarding school in Connecticut to another. But the Notre Dame interest was real, and went on a very long time, so we've got plenty of that good Prister and Sinclair scouting. And they both think this twin's an Anchor. GURU RATINGS RATINGS BY SITE 247: 6'3/265 On3: 6'2.5/255 Rivals: 6'3/257 ESPN: 6'3/270 4, 90, #230 Ovr #27 DL, #4 CT 3, 88, NR Ovr #50 DL, #6 CT 4, 5.8, NR Ovr #23 SDE, #3 CT 4, 82, #169 Ovr #9 DT, #4 CT 4.01 3.66 3.86 4.35 COMPOSITE RANKINGS 247 Composite On3 Consensus MGoBlog 4, 0.9105, #270 Ovr #30 DL, #4 CT 4, 89.85, #316 Ovr #28 DL, #4 CT 3.5*, #434/785 Ovr #37/68 DTs since 1990 4.11 3.99 3.93 Smith and his (fraternal) twin Jacob were early national recruits who traveled to camps all over the country. When the 2024 class debuted a year ago they were rewarded with top-100 rankings. Jerod was a 90 and #55 overall to 247, his brother #72. Those early ranks are always expected to fall as the class reveals itself, and lo Jerod fell to #143 last July, and to #184 at the end of the summer. Around then Jacob started to slid ever so much over his brother, but 247 gave Jerod a bump back to #145 after the junior tape came in. That's since slipped down to what you see above in the last re-rank. Jacob is nearby at #212. It was a similar adventure on Rivals. Adam Friedman named DL as the strongest position of the 2024 crop, and named Jerod among eight guys who could be a 5-star when the class shakes out, but he was at #210 when they debuted the class, hung around the 220s, and fell out of the top-250 in March. There's nothing written on either from a scouting perspective yet from On3 or ESPN, whose ranking dates back to an Alabama-Georgia swing last summer. Michigan didn't offer the twins until early January of this year, by which point they had already taken over 20 visits, including three to Alabama and two to Notre Dame, who was expecting to wrap up those recruitments any day. [AFTER THE JUMP: Prister and Sinclair go to work]

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2022 Recruiting: Amorion Walker

Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones, G Alessandro Lorenzetti, C Olu Oluwatimi, TE Marlin Klein, TE Colston Loveland. Ponchatoula, LA – 6'4”, 180 [Barron] 247: 6'4/175 3.60* 3, 87, NR overall #101 WR, #31 LA Rivals: 6'3/170 3.73 3, 5.7, NR overall #34 ATH, #22 LA ESPN: 6'3/170 3.95 4, 80, #128 SE #44 WR, #16 LA On3: 6'4/180 3.68 3, 88, NR overall #88 WR, #23 LA Composite: 3.83 3*, 0.8826, #522 ovr #72 WR, #25 LA Other Suitors ND (decommit), Bama, LSU YMRMFSPA Nico Collins Previously On MGoBlog Commitment alert. Notes UA All-American. Twitter. Early Enrollee. Film: Senior Highlights: Hudl. Play of the week. The best Pixar film since their acquisition is debatable, but Coco makes enough of the lists that I think it can serve for some consensus. It is a brilliant film, gorgeous, deep, and almost perfect except for one unfortunate uncanny valley (Spoiler Alert). See, for much of the movie this kid who's traversing the Land of Dead is doing so wearing skeleton facial paint to disguise the fact that he, unlike all the rest of this realm, still has his muscles and flesh. And you're thinking: Did none of these (ex-) people watch sports? Sport fan brains are wired to tell how much meat a player carries on his bones if nothing else. Swap Steve Breaston's jersey for Jason Avant's, and you'd still have to get 100 rows back to fool anybody. The latest moment like this was in Michigan's spring game. Nobody had seen Amorion Walker, the early enrolled wide receiver from the sandal gap of Louisiana, and nobody seemed to have accurate rosters of who was on maize or blue, but nobody who follows Michigan recruiting had trouble identifying #4. They would have known, for example, that ever since this Southerner whose catching radius has its own zip code had the best 40 time (4.41) and vertical (40 inches) at Bama's June 2021 camp, Michigan had worked extremely hard to pry Walker out of Notre Dame's class, and that Notre Dame everything short of abandoning their most hallowed tradition (losing to a mid-major school) to prevent it. They also might have known that Special Agent Ron Bellamy played for Walker's coach, that Sam Webb was alerted by the staff that they saw this as a 5-star recruitment, and he should get be on hand for the announcement on (early) Signing Day (Sam's second visit to see Walker). That everyone who saw Walker play apparently agreed with the two winningest schools with the nation's best scouting staffs, but couldn't bring themselves to rate the guy higher than 3 stars because he looks like a twig. Then the twig teleported past Will Johnson and settled in the soft spot in Cover 2. Okay, we see it. Now feed the boy. [After THE JUMP: Can we pay out NIL in meat?]

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2021 Recruiting: Kechaun Bennett

Previously: Last year’s profiles. P Tommy Doman Jr. S Rod Moore. CB Ja’Den McBurrows. LB Jaydon Hood. LB Junior Colson. LB Tyler McLaurin.

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24/7:
          3.88*
3, 89, #420 overall
#49 DL, #2 CT

Rivals:
          4.13
4, 5.8, NR overall
#12 WDE, #1 CT

ESPN:
          3.97
4, 80, #49 East
#41 DE, #1 CT

Composite:
          3.93
4*, .8925, #353 overall
#49 DL, #2 CT

Other Suitors
Notre Dame, PSU, Miami (YTM)

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This was the year Rivals started to take the Northeast seriously. Two Massachusetts guys, including Standard Northeast Grow-a-Butt Louis Hansen, made the top-250. Also three guys from Connecticut made four stars, and CT #1 Kechaun ended up closer to the top-250 than where former commit/fellow 4-star Quinton Somerville ended up.
And it’s hard not to blame them considering the DEs Don Brown has consistently pulled out of New England. Kwity Paye was the latest, but Harold Landry, Wyatt Ray, Ray Smith, Zach Allen, and if EJ Holland’s squees are to believed, classmate TJ Guy were guys nobody seemed to care about until the great mustache twitched.
247 isn’t of the same opinion on Bennett specifically, but they’re the site that did an extensive series a few years ago on what the ideal NFL edge prospect looks like coming out of high school and #1 for edge defenders was:
Takeaway No. 1: The weight will come
This has been a running theme throughout almost every position. The guys that hit aren’t typically maxed-out physically. They’re guys that add weight and develop at the next level. The 11 drafted guys averaged 6-foot-4, 223 pounds. Those 11 drafted guys averaged 261 pounds at the NFL Combine. Seven of the 11 gained more the 40 pounds in college. The undrafted four averaged 6-foot-3 3/4 and 242 pounds, nearly 20 pounds more than the drafted group out of high school.

They also like guys who test well, multi-sport athletes, especially wrestlers and above-the-rim basketball players. Their example for the perfect kind of prospect to blow up was David Ojabo.
They list Bennett at 6’4”/220 (Michigan says 6’5”/241, call him “accomplished wrestler” and a bendy athlete. They don’t have the testing numbers, and Bennett didn’t get a senior season, so we’re still in the dark.
Nobody’s takes were quite baked when Bennett committed past old man bedtime right after the whole athletic department went into lockdown, hence all the recruiting people have a “Where were you when” story when you bring up Kechaun. Penn State and Notre Dame decided Don Brown’s departure was their cue to move in on all of Michigan’s Northeast pledges, but Bennett was having none of it. Bennett was still, at least publicly, the least thrilled member of the class that Brown was let go. It’s hard to tell if he’s pleased they’re going to a system where he can be a Uche all the way up to 260 and beyond, because he went quiet again after signing. It’s not hard to tell, given the kinds of guys the new staff immediately began pursuing, that they really appreciate the type.
[After THE JUMP: What do they say about guys with good pad level]

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