Here’s Michigan’s schedule for the day:
• Sherrone Moore at main stage (broadcast live on Big Ten Network) — 12:45 p.m. PT (3:45 ET)
• Michigan players are individual podiums — 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. PT (4:15 – 4:45 ET)
• Sherrone Moore at individual podium — 3:30 – 4:15 p.m PT (6:30 – 7:15 ET)
Throughout the day, TheWolverine.com will provide updates regarding Michigan and other Big Ten news. Follow along below, with updates listed in reverse chronological order (most recent at the top).
Michigan RB3 job
07/24/2025 06:15:29 PM
Moore on the competition for third running back Bryson Kuzdzal, Micah Ka’apana, but I wouldn’t count out Jasper Parker. He’s built like Hassan Haskins — big, strong, physical — but he’s a freshman. The other guys, John [Volker], CJ, we’ll see. There are a lot of guys pushing [Jordan Marshall and Justice Haynes].”
Kendrick Bell is 100 percent
07/24/2025 06:11:25 PM
Michigan wide receiver Kendrick Bell missed spring practices but is back full go, according to Sherrone Moore.
Hogan Hansen status and what to make of Michigan’s tight ends
07/24/2025 06:11:16 PM
Moore: “Hogan Hansen is gonna be a really good player for us. Marlin has taken steps. Bredeson is a different breed. Zack Marshall has stepped up and had a really good offseason. A guy that keeps showing up and might have as fluid of ball skills as any of them.” Moore said that “we’ll see” when Hansen will be back.
Sherrone Moore on contenders at right guard
07/24/2025 06:09:00 PM
Moore on contenders at right guard: “Nate Efobi, Brady Norton, Lawrence Hattar, even Jake Guarnera is playing center but also guard.” He mentioned that Evan Link is a tackle that can also play guard.
How freshman offensive linemen can earn starting jobs
07/24/2025 06:06:57 PM
Moore: “You’ll know when they’re ready. When they stop getting bull rushed into the quarterback … but it’s gonna be a process to see. Playing O-line at Michigan is hard, but playing O-line at Michigan as a freshman is really hard.”
Sherrone Moore on Michigan’s focus on beating OSU
07/24/2025 06:05:30 PM
Moore on what has allowed Michigan to beat Ohio State four straight years: “The players and the coaches, and the trust in each other. It’s not about belief. We’re not believing — we trust each other, our process is what we’re gonna do. … That game is bigger than anything. It’s what we work for 365. To us it means a lot.”
Rewriting the story on Michigan’s offense after a tough 2024
07/24/2025 06:02:34 PM
Moore on rewriting the story on offense from last season: “You want to be able to be balanced, and when you feel one-dimensional, that’s not a way to operate. For us to be as successful as we were at the end of the year, one, kudos to our running game, but two, kudos to our defense.” He added that the special teams deserves credit, too. Moore said the plan is to be “explosive,” but they’ll know more in fall camp.”
Andrew Sprague in pole position at right tackle
07/24/2025 06:01:10 PM
Moore on right tackle Andrew Sprague: “Uber talented. He has all the ability. had a little injury in training camp, so could’ve been fighting for that spot before the season. But showed throughout the season he could be the starter at the end of the season. … Right now, he’s in pole position to be the starter because of the game he played against Alabama. But there are guys behind him pushing. Ty Haywood, a true freshman from [Texas]. We’ve got a lot of guys to push everybody so nobody feels comfortable.”
Returning starting offensive linemen Greg Crippen, Giovanni El-Hadi and Evan Link
07/24/2025 05:59:40 PM
Moore on the value of returning starting offensive linemen: “There’s no substitute for experience on the football field, especially in the trenches. Guys that have started the whole year and have the confidence to do that.”
Sherrone Moore on Michigan punters
07/24/2025 05:58:37 PM
Moore on Michigan’s punter competition: “Hudson is in the pole position right now to take that, but we brought in a couple guys. Ready to see what happens in fall camp.”
Bryce Underwood’s legs
07/24/2025 05:57:50 PM
Moore on if Michigan will run Bryce Underwood a lot: “Whenever you have a quarterback, they’ve gotta have the ability to do that. But if you run your quarterback, you better have two.”
Sherrone Moore on potential suspension
07/24/2025 05:54:59 PM
Moore on if it’s hard to prepare for the season not knowing what the NCAA is going to rule: “Obviously, can’t talk about that, but not hard because you’re so excited … You can’t worry about things you can’t control.”
Moore said he has a plan in place if he is suspended but he won’t share it because “we’ll wait to see if that happens.”
Sherrone Moore on Michigan’s edge duo
07/24/2025 05:55:50 PM
Moore: “I feel bad for the offense” for having to block Derrick Moore and TJ Guy at the edge rusher spots.
Defensive line is deep
07/24/2025 05:52:16 PM
• Moore on Michigan’s deep defensive line: “Ten deep. I think you got six inside guys and four outside guys, which is crazy. The two OL is gonna feel like they’re dealing with the 1 defense.”
Whole defensive staff is back
07/24/2025 05:51:06 PM
Moore on defensive staff continuity: “Excited about having everybody there. The continuity is awesome, having everybody back. Wink is having the time of his life, which is awesome to see when guys have fun. He’s mentioned that to me a couple of times, how much fun he has around our players.”
Adding QB Jake Garcia this summer
07/24/2025 05:50:42 PM
Moore on ECU transfer QB Jake Garcia: “Just another talented quarterback, talented arm in the room. We wanted to have as many talented players as possible. It wasn’t because of injury or because anybody was not gonna get back.”
Sherrone Moore on linebacker depth
07/24/2025 05:49:10 PM
Moore on if this is the deepest Michigan linebacking corps he’s been around: “Eerily similar to ’23 with those guys — Mike Barrett and Junior and Ernest. This group might be deeper because Ernest, Jaishawn — absolute freak show, Cole Sullivan, who’s gonna take the college football world by storm, and Jimmy Rolder has played as well as anyone. You add a superstar freshman like Nate Owusu-Boateng and Chase Taylor …”
Sherrone Moore on how ‘close’ he felt Michigan was last season
07/24/2025 05:47:24 PM
Moore: “You look at obviously you won against the team that won it all, so you feel like you’re pretty close. The games you lost, you think there are moments you could’ve grabbed them. … Our job is to make sure we don’t have those times anymore so we don’t have to have those conversations of [what ifs]. Our job as coaches is to make sure we’re in position to be successful. We’re inching to that, and all we can do is get to training camp and see how far we can get to.”
Sherrone Moore on flag planting
07/24/2025 05:45:34 PM
Moore: “There will be no more flag planting. There will be no more grabbing the flag. We talked about our new tradition when winning the game — go see our band, go over there until the other team departs.”
Sherrone Moore on Michigan’s standard
07/24/2025 05:44:40 PM
Moore: “You don’t want to lose any game. That’s the goal as a coach. To me, the standard is not 8-5. The goal is to win every single game and hoist the trophy every year.”
Sherrone Moore on Ohio State
07/24/2025 05:44:02 PM
Moore on Ohio State’s national championship: “They won the national title. They were the best team at the end of the year. I give them all the credit. They won it all, so kudos to them.”
On Zeke Berry and Michigan cornerbacks
07/24/2025 05:42:36 PM
On Zeke Berry as a cornerback and the other contenders at that position besides Jyaire Hill: “Really like Zeke at corner. Showed high upside at the end of the season. The other guy that’s really standing out is Shamari Earls at corner. Caleb Anderson, the transfer from Louisiana, is a tall, long guy — in the mold of the corners that we’ve brought in like Josh Wallace and Aamir Hall. JoJo Edmond is another guy that’ll fit in that fray. There are some young guys. Excited to see Jayden Sanders and Elijah Dotson, who will play safety and nickel.”
Left tackle position
07/24/2025 05:40:25 PM
Moore on how Blake Frazier can be in the mix at left tackle: “Blake Frazier is almost 100 percent healthy, so he’s working in there and feeling good. Be the best guy and be consistant throughout training camp and show that he can be that Blake Frazier that I think he can be. There are three guys in there — Blake Frazier, Andrew Babalola and Evan Link — in that competition.”
He noted that Frazier has gone from 250 to 290 pounds since high school.
Sherrone Moore on Oklahoma
07/24/2025 05:39:54 PM
Moore on his alma mater Oklahoma, playing them in week two: “My anticipation for that game is that it’s a big game and our first road test. People might not want to hear it from the Oklahoma side, but I’m a Wolverine. My allegiance is not to Oklahoma, regardless of going there. It’s to Michigan and the football players at Michigan.”
Sherrone Moore on Chip Lindsey and offensive balance
07/24/2025 05:38:56 PM
Sherrone Moore mentioned that “it’s all about balance” on offense, even with new offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey. Moore said that people think that he (Moore) only wants to run the ball, but that’s not true. He said sometimes it got out of wack and he wanted to pound the rock, but that Michigan had the QB of the year in the Big Ten in 2023, as voted on by the coaches, and that doesn’t happen without a great passing attack
Nickel position is wide open
07/24/2025 05:37:43 PM
• Moore on the nickel position: “That competition is gonna be fun to watch because there are so many guys that could play.” Moore noted that there are corners and safeties in the mix, and that it’ll be a true battle in fall camp.
Gains in the weight room
07/24/2025 05:35:33 PM
• On gains in the weight room: “There are so many. People hit on Bryce — he’s gone from 215 to 230, and it’s good weight. A guy like Enow Etta. He’s 320 right now, came it at like 250. Andrew Sprague has changed his body. Deyvid Palepale. He was 370 and is now 338.”
• Strength coach Justin Tress “has taken full control of the weight room.”
Bryce Underwood
07/24/2025 05:32:29 PM
• Moore on Underwood taking half the snaps in spring ball: “Yeah, you only getting better at football by playing football. It definitely helped him. But before anybody asks, it’s an open competition. He is not the starter right now. There is no starter. We’ll find that in fall camp.”
• On how Underwood has handled pressure: “He’s 17 years old, so he doesn’t really know what he doesn’t know yet. It’s different at Michigan. To be the starting quarterback at Michigan, there’s a lot of quote-unquote pressure.”
Sherrone Moore updates
07/24/2025 05:30:34 PM
On how Michigan avoids losing the locker room with NIL: “You avoid it with the players you recruit and bring into the program. We’ve done a good job of separating the finances and those goal with what they came to Michigan for. … Our team is as close as its ever been.”
Sherrone Moore’s podium session
07/24/2025 04:52:51 PM
The Wolverine’s Anthony Broome penned a story on Sherrone Moore’s podium session.
Key quote: ”Last year, we hit a couple of speed bumps, but we didn’t allow those to become roadblocks,” Moore said on Thursday afternoon. “We overcame a lot of adversity and had a successful end of the year. But really, we’re not living on that. We know that’s done. We know that’s past us and our jobs now are to write a new story on what the University of Michigan and Team 146 is all about.”
Sherrone Moore on QB Mikey Keene and OC Chip Lindsey
07/24/2025 03:00:32 PM
Moore: “Overall, the room is awesome. I love those guys in the room as young men, first of all. I did a study about snaps in college football, and he leads the team with 2,029 in college football. He’s a guy that’s experienced it at a high level.
“Bringing in Chip has been awesome. From the knowledge standpoint and the things that he’s gonna and has given our offense has been outstanding. And he’s been a head coach — to lean on someone who’s been in my position before is awesome.”
Sherrone Moore on Michigan wide receivers
07/24/2025 02:58:22 PM
Moore: “Donaven McCulley, Andrew Marsh, Jamar Browder and Jacob Washington in recruitment. But the retention of guys like Fred Moore, Semaj Morgan, I’Marion Stewart, Channning Goodwin, Peyton O’Leary, Kendrick Bell. They’ve done a good job of changing the mentality of that room.”
Sherrone Moore on Bryce Underwood
07/24/2025 02:56:13 PM
Moore on freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood: “I think he’s grown every single day since he’s been on campus. He’s been with us since December. Does everything he can to be the best teammate, student and football player he can be.”
Sherrone Moore on ‘lessons’ from last season
07/24/2025 02:55:21 PM
Moore, asked about lessons he learned from last season with the quarterbacks: “Lessons is the right word. It’s not losses but lessons. … Really it’s just staying in the moment. You can’t worry about yesterday and tomorrow’s not owed to you. We’re focusing on what we can do now, not just the quarterback room but everyone. … We’ve done a good job of staying together, standing arm in arm. As a team, I think we’re gonna be better this year.”
Michigan is ‘ready to put on a show’
07/24/2025 02:54:04 PM
Moore: “Team 146 is excited and ready to go. We’re geared up. We have the conditioning test tomorrow, and next week we start camp. We’re ready to put on a show.”
Sherrone Moore on ‘team over me’
07/24/2025 02:52:53 PM
Moore: “Team over me is our theme. Everything we’ve done is for our team. In the world we live in now, it’s very easy to look at and think about yourself and not the team. Bo said it the best — ‘the team, the team, the team.’ We’ve really exemplified that with everything we’ve done this offseason.”
Sherrone Moore on ‘speed bumps’
07/24/2025 02:52:03 PM
Moore: “Last year, we had a couple speed bumps, but we didn’t allow those to become road blocks.”
Sherrone Moore opening statement
07/24/2025 02:50:51 PM
Moore in his opening statement: “Our coaches, our staff at the University of Michigan — so blessed to have you guys. … The most important people in our program is our players. You guys know about how much I care about and love you. Thank you for everything you do for our university and program.”
Sherrone Moore is up next
07/24/2025 02:37:04 PM
USC’s Lincoln Riley is currently speaking at the podium, and he’ll be followed by Sherrone Moore.
Head coach press conferences are underway
07/24/2025 01:33:55 PM
Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz is kicking off the six head coach press conferences for today. Here’s the schedule:
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Barry Odom, Purdue 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
DeShaun Foster, UCLA 12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Jonathan Smith, Michigan State 12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Lincoln Riley, USC 12:30 – 12:45 p.m.
Sherrone Moore, Michigan 12:45 – 1:00 p.m.
Michigan has arrived
07/24/2025 01:32:36 PM
Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore and his three player representatives have arrived in Las Vegas and are going through TV obligations before joining the dozens of reporters for press conferences.
