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INDIANAPOLIS; DETROIT — Every year, unless something goes horribly awry, every college football team will have at least one player by the end of the season that fans didn’t know much about who will become something of a household name.
While it’s always something of a mystery — sometimes it’s a true freshman who arrives on campus during the summer, thus there’s little prior knowledge as to their in-season ceiling — usually, we can gather some kind of idea, based on the hype they’re getting in the offseason. That’s because the work is put in the spring and summer months, and it shows come the fall.
“I feel like we’ve won half the battle. Now we’ve gotta win the second half of the battle,” Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said at Big Ten media days. “I always look at an offseason that way. The offseason is half the battle, you gotta win that, you gotta get your best possible team to training camp and then you go about winning the second half of the battle.”
With that in mind, when WolverinesWire asked Michigan LB Josh Ross and EDGE Aidan Hutchinson at Big Ten media days, as well as OT Andrew Stueber at the TUFF event in Detroit, all three said some common names as to who they anticipate will be shining stars by the end of the 2021 season.
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