Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Brandin Hawthorne — Linebackers — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 5:30am — 7/13/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Brandin Hawthorne — Linebackers — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Brandin Hawthorne 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 (Linebackers) we will not evaluate #27 Al Mike Jones because we didn’t get a good read on him this spring. 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: #34 Isaiah Bell who left the team, #42 J.B. Fitzgerald, #51 Marell Evans, and #58 Brandon Herron. #94 Jordan Paskorz has moved to tight end and #97 Brennen Beyer to defensive end.
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: #35 Joe Bolden and #49 Kaleb Ringer (already on campus for spring football), Royce Jenkins-Stone and James Ross.
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Michael McCray and Ben Gedeon.
Brandin Hawthorne
Height: 6’0
Weight: 214
Number: 7
Position: Linebacker
Year: Senior
City/State: Pahokee, Florida
High School: Pahokee
High School Coach: Blaze Thompson
Brandin Hawthorne what else can be said? Let’s start with you gotta love the kid.
He always gives 100% and is absolutely fearless.
Brandin is the classic tweener that the previous staff loved to bring in for their defensive scheme. He ended up too small for linebacker and not athletic enough for safety. He is a player that you don’t hear much about off the field and that is always a good thing. He is never heard complaining publicly when either a scheme changes that might have not fit his style, or when new coaches were brought in.
We have seen glimpses of what he can do on the field, but in most cases he cannot hold up against the bigger, more powerful offensive lines of the Big Ten. He does well against teams that spread out and like to do a lot of short passing or teams that are not very physical up front.
We expect him to be a major contributor to special teams this season as a senior and wouldn’t be surprised to see him being one of the leaders of the special team groups. Special teams aren’t the sexy or most glamorous things to do on the team, but when you can have seniors that are willing to be out there and do whatever they can for the team it only helps to get other players wanting to be part of special teams and be able to get over the “I am too good” for special teams mindset that you see from some players, especially when they believe they should be playing more.
During the spring game, Brandin made a statement the way he knows best: a few impressive hits. We hope the message continues and the coaches will take note.
Just a reminder, you must be a member to participate on the free Message Board. Here is the link for the registration page for those people interested in becoming a GBMWolverine member of our message board. GBMWolverine Register.
Please comment on our GBMWolverine Message Board about this article and read what others comment.
You can contact us at our e-mail address: GBMWolverine
Please follow us on Twitter: @GBMWolverine
Written by GBMWolverine Staff
Go Blue — Wear Maize!