3 overreactions from Michigan Football win at Rutgers

These are three of the most absurd overreactions from Michigan football’s clobbering of Rutgers in Piscataway on Saturday night.

Rutgers gave Michigan football everything that they could handle in the first 30 minutes of action. However, it was a completely different story in round two as Michigan blasted the Scarlet Knights 38-0. It’s what championship-caliber teams do when they know what they are capable of doing to a lesser nemesis.

Here are the three overreactions.

1. Will Johnson channeled his inner Charles Woodson on his interception play

It was okay to get giddy when Will Johnson intercepted a pass from Gavin Wimsatt in the win. He is excelling at a more seasoned level than he was earlier in the schedule. It might be a little too early to anoint him as the next Charles Woodson though, making this an overreaction that has the realization of coming true in the kid’s bright future.

He filled in very appropriately for Gemon Green who was out because of last week’s fiasco. The comparisons to Woodson are premature, but there’s no doubt that he has the tools to be a lockdown corner like he was. He isn’t known for his offense like Woodson was either, but who knows what the coaching staff has planned for him in the coming years.

For now, Michigan football fans should pump the brakes on the Woodson chatter, but with his performances rising every week, it’s hard not to. He’ll get a seismic opportunity that he must be chomping at the bit for when he and his teammates go up against the nastiest receiving core in the nation in a mere three weeks in Columbus.