Ranking The Top 10 Michigan Football Offensive Players Heading Into 2023 By PFF Grade
Michigan football players report back to school on Tuesday and fall camp officially begins on Wednesday, August 2.
I've already predicted my breakout players for the season, and battles to watch during fall camp. So let's dig a little deeper now and look at what the analytics have to say.
We are going to look at Pro Football Focus and rank the top 10 Michigan offensive players heading into the 2023 season by what their offensive grade is per PFF.
The only two rules to this are: they have to be back at Michigan in 2023 and they had to have played a minimum of 294 snaps a season ago to make the list.
1. Blake Corum (RB) Grade: 96.2 (453 total snaps)
2. Donovan Edwards (RB) Grade: 86.9 (346 total snaps)
3. Drake Nugent (C) Grade: 80.5 (822 total snaps at Stanford)
4. Trente Jones (RT) Grade: 78.1 (335 total snaps)
5. J.J. McCarthy (QB) Grade: 77.7 (861 total snaps)
6. Zak Zinter (RG) Grade: 75.7 (918 total snaps)
7. Roman Wilson (WR) Grade: 70.5 (294 total snaps)
8. LaDarius Henderson (LG) Grade: 66.4 (361 total snaps at Arizona State)
9. Giovanni El-Hadi (LG/LT) Grade: 63.5 (367 total snaps)
10. Karsen Barnhart (RT) Grade: 60.9 (644 total snaps)
Other notables:
Cornelius Johnson (WR) Grade: 59.8
Trevor Keegan (LG) Grade: 59.7
Colston Loveland (TE) Grade: 57.0
