Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Joe Kerridge — FullBack — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 6:00am — 5/13/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Joe Kerridge — FullBack — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Stephen Hopkins 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 (Running Backs) we will not evaluate #99 Paul Gyarmati who plays fullback and linebacker. 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: Michael Shaw (NFL – Redskins Free Agent), Michael Cox (Graduated and transferred to UMass), and John McColgan (FB).
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: Drake Johnson, Sione Houma (FB), and Dennis Norfleet.
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: DeVeon Smith and Wyatt Shallman (FB).
Joe Kerridge
Height: 6’0
Weight: 231
Number: 36
Position: Fullback
Year: Red-shirt Freshman
City/State: Traverse City, Michigan
High School: St. Francis
Joe is a fullback, which in this day and age means selfless blocking, time after time, living the dream of the tragic figure Sisyphus: laboring with no known reward in sight.
Like all true fullbacks, Joe gives Michigan everything he has, and is willing to give up his body by eternally blocking.
Joe is the type of player that is always needed on a team. He serves as a model for a coach to point out to others his qualities, essentially inferring to some star players or others on scholarship that they need to put just as much effort into it as the common man fullback. A coach always likes to exhort the underdog to get the star players more motivated and get them to more willingly put the time and effort in necessary for success at this level. In short, a little selected guilt may pay results.
Joe is not much of a threat with the ball, either running the ball or in the passing game. He is a 1 trick pony! His staple is blocking, blocking, and then blocking some more.
You will not see Joe touching the ball much, if at all, but he can be effective in this offense with a 2 back set and being the lead blocker in this offense. Like all fullbacks Joe’s job over the summer is to get stronger and dream visions of pancaking linebackers.
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Written by GBMWolverine Staff
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