Tag: C.J. Charleston

Michigan football adds a wide receiver via transfer portal

Good news for the good guys! #GoBlue

Michigan football has desperately needed to add wide receiver talent via the transfer portal.

Though it has two freshmen coming in the summer in I’Marion Stewart and Channing Goodwin, with the departures of Cornelius Johnson and Roman Wilson to the NFL and Darrius Clemons, Cristian Dixon, and Karmello English to the transfer portal, the Wolverines only have a handful of scholarship wide receivers on the roster.

The maize and blue look to have found one solution.

Coming via the transfer portal after a career-best 33 catches for 503 yards and four touchdowns, a 6-foot, 190-pound receiver in former Youngstown State wideout C.J. Charleston has joined the fold. He announced he’s committed to Michigan football via X (formerly Twitter).

Charleston has been with the Penguins five years and has played four years but with only one game played in 2019, he has a redshirt year and a COVID year. He did not play in 2022, and it’s unclear if he’ll have one or two years of eligibility. He will be a grad transfer regardless.

He joins Josh Priebe, Jaishawn Barham, and Dominic Zvada joining the 2024 class via the transfer portal. He joins a WR room featuring Semaj Morgan, Tyler Morris, Fred Moore, and Peyton O’Leary.

 

Michigan football gets prediction to land FCS wide receiver

Could be a good get for the maize and blue. #GoBlue

While he may not have had barnburner stats, things worked out well last time Michigan football landed a receiver via the transfer portal from a lower-level college football school.

It was 2021 and the Wolverines managed to attain the services of former Jackson State wideout Daylen Baldwin, winning the recruiting battle over several big-name schools — including Ohio State. Now the maize and blue are looking to get another wide receiver from the transfer portal from a school that’s not in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Hailing from Youngstown State in the FCS, C.J. Charleston entered the transfer portal after a career-best 33 catches for 503 yards and four touchdowns. The 6-foot, 190-pound receiver doesn’t have a lot of reported offers, but he’s apparently trending toward Michigan football having received a 247Sports Crystal Ball from The Michigan Insider’s Sam Webb.

Charleston has been with the Penguins five years and has played four years but with only one game played in 2019, he has a redshirt year and a COVID year. He did not play in 2022, and it’s unclear if he’ll have one or two years of eligibility. He will be a grad transfer regardless.

Michigan definitely needs receivers as Cornelius Johnson and Roman Wilson headed to the NFL while Darrius Clemons and Karmello English hit the transfer portal this offseason.