Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Brandon Moore — Tight End — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 6:00am — 5/22/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Brandon Moore — Tight End — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Brandon Moore 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.
Brandon Moore
Height: 6’5
Weight: 255
Number: 89
Position: Tight End
Year: Fifth-year Senior
City/State: Trotwood, Ohio
High School: Trotwood-Madison
High School Coach: Maurice Douglass
Brandon Moore has shown a night and day difference since he first arrived in Ann Arbor as a tall tight end recruit from Trotwood, Ohio.
He has always been a solid overall athlete, but just did not have the strength to be able to play with a physical nature. And so he became a back up even in the RR program that did not emphasize the role of a physical tight end. Brandon’s strength and flexibility has improved.
This spring Brandon’s blocking was obviously improved over the past couple of years. He still has a ways to go, but is now showing signs of being a competent blocker. Going into fall practices Brandon may be the first tight end in for both passing plays and as a blocker.
Brandon still needs to improve getting off the line of scrimmage in the passing game. He was not a big target in the passing game this spring, but was fairly consistent catching the ball when it was thrown his way.
With the graduation of Koger and Watson, and with limited numbers and experience, it will be interesting to see how Coach Borges uses the tight ends this year. This spring we saw a lot of three and four wide receiver sets, along with two back sets without a tight end, so, again, it will be interesting to see how many snaps the tight ends gets this year.
Don’t be surprised if an incoming freshman gets a shot early on, especially if he can block (A.J. Williams in particular0, especially if the running game falters early on in the schedule.
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