Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Ricardo Miller — Tight End/Receiver — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations

Posted at 6:00am — 5/26/2012

Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Ricardo Miller — Tight End/Receiver — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations

GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.

GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Ricardo Miller and GBMWolverine’s analysis concerning his progress this spring in our opinion.

Note: We will not evaluate every player on the team and with this position group (Tight Ends) we will not evaluate #40 Nate Allspach, #42 Dylan Esterline, #83 Mike Kwiatkowski and #93 Chris Eddins. If you would like to chat about this player bring them up on the message board or send us an e-mail request.

Reminder: Also noted that we didn’t attend every practice and realize things happen during those fifteen practices, but our evaluations are based on what we seen first hand and in our opinion and not what we hear like just about every other site out there that relies on second, third hand information to make their evaluations of the players during the spring.

Losing from 2011 (Team #132) on scholarship: Kevin Koger and Steve Watson.

Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: Devin Funchess (TE/Slot) and A.J. Williams.

Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Jake Butt and Khalid Hill.

Ricardo Miller
Height: 6’4
Weight: 234
Number: 80
Position: Tight End/Receiver
Year: Junior
City/State: Orlando, Florida / Ann Arbor, Michigan
High School: Dr. Phillips / Pioneer
High School Coach: Jeremy Gold (Pioneer)

We at GBMWolverine have such great respect for Ricardo. His high school career and commitment to Michigan received acclaim, at least in this part of the world.

He is a great student who does whatever is asked of him. He is loyal and must be a joy to coach.

We know the following has been repeated several times by our staff, but Ricardo is another player that falls into the classic “Tweener” position recruited by the former new Michigan. Ricardo is probably too big for receiver and too small for tight end. It will be interesting to see how things work out this fall for him.

Obviously you all know Ricardo and his family love Michigan since they moved from Michigan to Michigan his senior year in high school to get closer to Ann Arbor and establish family support.

WOTS is that Miller is going to take another shot at wide receiver this fall and see how it works out for him and the team.

We approve of that, because it is doubtful Miller will ever add enough weight or strength to be very effective at tight end even though the depth and talent is currently low.

Ricardo does have the type of height Michigan likes in their wide receivers.

Now the question becomes does Ricardo have enough quickness and speed to separate from defenders at the wide receiver position?

That position group does not have a lot of depth or talent either, but there is plenty to overcome.

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Written by GBMWolverine Staff

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