The 2027 Michigan football recruiting class is still taking shape. The Wolverines have three commitments who reaffirmed their pledges after Kyle Whittingham was hired.
There was one decommitment, from four-star quarterback Peter Bourque. That, along with a couple of 2026 signees who asked out of their letter of intent soon after Sherrone Moore was fired, were the only recruiting casualties of the coaching change.
The recruiting board was another, just in the sense that Michigan football had to reset it. The Wolverines have an entirely new staff, outside of Tony Alford, so there is a lot of relationship building happening on the fly.
However, Michigan is starting to trend up in some big-time recruitments. One of those is the recruitment of a five-star cornerback Donte Wright, a Georgia commitment who is ranked 21st overall according to the Rivals Industry Rankings. He's a four-star via Rivals, but at 23rd overall in the 247 Sports composite rankings, he ranks as a five-star.
Michigan is gaining in effort to flip elite Georgia commitment
Wright is 6-foot, 170 pounds. He's also got electrifying speed, running a 10.69 in the 100-meter dash. That's the kind of speed you can't teach. This past season, he had 25 tackles, seven pass breakups, and two sacks in seven games out of Long Beach, California.
Knowing the new staff and its ties to California makes you feel like Michigan has a solid chance to flip Wright, especially after it was reported by Ethan McDowell of The Wolverine that Wright has locked in an official visit this summer.
Michigan isn't the only program he's visiting. Others are trying to flip the blue-chip cornerback committed to the Bulldogs since last June. UCLA and Oregon also have official visits scheduled. Texas and Texas A&M have also offered along with Tennessee, USC, Washington, Oklahoma, and Miami among others.
With an official visit locked in, getting Wright on campus for a spring visit would be the next step. But as they are with plenty of others, Michigan is trending up with the elite cornerback.