When you’re winning, things can be really good. And such has appeared the case for Michigan football.
The Wolverines have been the only Power Five team without a transfer portal entrant until Monday, when that suddenly changed. Sophomore running back CJ Stokes was expected to do big things and showed flashes of greatness in his first year. After showing out for the first few games, Stokes fumbled in the Maryland game in Week 4 of 2022, and hasn’t been seen much since. When Blake Corum went down with injury in Week 12, it was converted linebacker Kalel Mullings who got the nod over the first-year player.
Fast forward a year and we’ve still barely seen the Columbia, South Carolina product. He has become Michigan’s first entrant into the transfer portal this cycle.
Michigan running back CJ Stokes has entered the transfer portal, @MLive has learned.
— Aaron McMann | MLive Media Group (@AaronMcMann) December 11, 2023
With Blake Corum definitely moving on to the NFL and Donovan Edwards having a decision to make, Stokes’ departure could make the running back room a bit thin. But there have been suggestions that the Wolverines will target one in the transfer portal.
Stokes will have three years of eligibility at the next destination.