While National Signing Day may have been yesterday, the chaos that is the recruiting trail is far from over, especially with dozens of player opting to delay their signing.
Four-star wide receiver Brady Marchese is one of those players, opting to sign his Letter of Intent a day later. That 24-hour period has teams, including the Michigan Wolverines, giving one final push to flip his commitment.
Marchese has been committed to the Georgia Bulldogs for nearly nine months. However, his delayed signing was seemingly a go-ahead signal for other teams to express their last-minute interest.
Why is Michigan going after another WR?
Now, the Wolverines have already signed Jaylen Pile and Travis Johnson, two blue-chip wide receivers who committed to Michigan and head coach Sherrone Moore.
Michigan received even more exciting news when four-star wideout Calvin Russell announced he would not be signing with the Syracuse Orange on NSD, giving the Wolverines better odds at flipping his commitment (something they were already poised to do).
However, Michigan commit Zion Robinson opted to delay his signing, sending a stress signal to the program that he might not be joining the Wolverines after all.
Robinson delaying his signing may be exactly why Moore and his staff are still pursuing Marchese, a player that the Wolverines sent an offer to in January and who visited Ann Arbor just a few months ago.
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Michigan desperately needs receivers. The wideout room was completely lackluster throughout the regular season, and it was a big problem for true-freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood, who had to rely on his own legs and those of Justice Haynes and Jordan Marshall to find any positive yardage.
The addition of Marchese, alongside Pile, Johnson, and possibly Russell, is exactly what the Wolverines need for Underwood to step into his own next season. So, it really shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Moore is taking a last-minute swing when he has the room to do so.