Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Michael Schofield — Offensive Line — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 6:30am — 6/2/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Michael Schofield — Offensive Line — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Michael Schofield 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 (Offensive Line) we will not evaluate #61 Graham Glasgow and #70 Kristian Mateus. 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: David Molk, Rocko Khoury, and Mark Huyge.
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: Kyle Kalis, Blake Bars, Erik Magnuson, Ben Braden, and A.J. Williams (TE/OL).
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Patrick Kugler, Logan Tuley-Tillman, David Dawson, Chris Fox, and Kyle Bosch.
Michael Schofield
Height: 6’7
Weight: 299
Number: 75
Position: Right Tackle
Year: Red-shirt Junior
City/State: Orland Park, Illinois
High School: Carl Sandburg
High School Coach: Dave Wierzal
If Michael keeps improving he has the potential, with his versatility and also his size, to play in the NFL. He has demonstrated that he can play multiple positions, an important card at the NFL Draft table. If needed he could slot into both tackle and guard spots. That by itself could get him on a NFL roster.
Michael is noticeably thicker and still maintains most of his quickness and athletic ability from last fall. He is a player that could easily put on another 15-20 pounds that would not be noticed by the common person.
We have been informed that the coaches want Michael to add 15 more pounds before fall practices start up, but one of his biggest issues is actually trying to gain weight. He is on a 6,000 calorie diet and still cannot keep weight on. Wouldn’t that be a nice situation for all of us to have? Michael burns about 3,000 calories a day just being a normal college student. That doesn’t include being a football player, practicing and going to the weight room.
Michael played both tackle positions and some offensive guard this spring. He played left tackle mostly to give Lewan and shuffled around when the coaches wanted to try different combinations.
Our prediction is Michael will start at right tackle, although left guard is a definite possibility. The final decision may be by default as we do not really view anyone else that could play right tackle at a level needed for this offense to execute. It would be a luxury to have Michael at left guard along Lewan if Michigan had another player that could handle the right tackle position. Wow what a left side of the line that would be for Michigan.
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Written by GBMWolverine Staff
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