TAMPA, Fla. — Michigan football is finishing 2024 the way it started — at least in terms of opponent.
The Wolverines started the year playing Alabama on Jan. 1 at the Rose Bowl. With both teams starting over with new coaches, they fell short of expectations and are playing again on Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve, at the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa.
Both teams have several opt-outs, but for Alabama it’s more the outgoing transfers (such as Michigan commits Damon Payne and Justice Haynes) who have inhibited the Crimson Tide roster from being at full strength. Michigan will be without multiple high-level players who have declared for the NFL draft.
So who will play? Who’s injured? Below you can find a mix between the injury report and those who will not be partaking in the final game in 2024 on the maize and blue side of things.
Questionable
- S Jaden Mangham
- WR Amorion Walker
- OT Jeff Persi
Out
- TE Brady Prieskorn
Declared for NFL draft or did not travel with the team
- RB Kalel Mullings
- RB Donovan Edwards
- S Makari Paige
- LT Myles Hinton
- TE Colston Loveland
- WR Tyler Morris
- CB Will Johnson
- Edge Josaiah Stewart
- DT Mason Graham
- DT Kenneth Grant
Transferred out
- RB Tavierre Dunlap (Eastern Michigan)
- RB Cole Cabana (Western Michigan)
- OL Raheem Anderson (Western Michigan)
- OL Andrew Gentry (BYU)
- C Dominick Giudice (Missouri)
- QB Jayden Denegal (San Diego State)
- P Tommy Doman (Florida)