Michigan Football: 3 Takeaways from Wolverines latest commitments

Checking in on the blue-chip ratio

If you don’t know about the blue-chip ratio, it’s a helpful way to look at recruiting. Essentially, the idea is that you need to recruit more five and four-star recruits than three stars.

Bud Elliot collected this data for 247 sports using their composite rankings and over the past four years, Michigan football is at 59 percent.

That makes the Wolverines one of 15 programs heading into the 2020 season with a ratio over the past four years above 50 percent. Ohio State, Bama and Georgia are above 80 percent.

So after the decommitment of Markus Allen and the commitment of Dunlap, the Wolverines are still sitting at 55 percent in the class of 2021.

Michigan has 11 players rated as four-star recruits or above and 10 commits who are rated as three-star prospects. U-M also holds crystal ball leads for Edwards, Rayshaun Benny and George Rooks, so there’s a good chance that number could improve.

Yet, on another note, the commitment of Dunlap pushed the Wolverines to sixth in the Rivals teams rankings for 2021, while in the 247 sports rankings, they are sitting 10th.

Right now, the 2021 class is looking really good. It’s just about closing with those three priority targets and if Michigan lands all of them, especially Benny and Edwards, then it’s a home run.