Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
Alabama transfer Justice Haynes joins returning backs Jordan Marshall and Benjamin Hall to create a formidable running back room.While Haynes enters as the likely starter, both Marshall and Hall are eager to compete for the lead role.The Wolverines aim to return to their smash mouth style of offense, relying on the run game to set the tone.
The Michigan football offense struggled through much of the 2024 season. There’s little reason to rehash it.
The running backs — led by Donovan Edwards and Kalel Mullings, who combined for 313 rushes for 1,537 yards and 16 touchdowns — were solid, but it wasn’t exactly a vintage rushing attack.
With Edwards and Mullings headed to the NFL, it’s next man up at one of the most key positions in Ann Arbor, where the expectations in the room are already lofty. Entering 2025, the backfield is projected to feature the trio of Alabama transfer Justice Haynes, redshirt sophomore Jordan Marshall and sophomore Benjamin Hall; it’s a loaded room for position coach Tony Alford, which has the staff champing at the bit to see them in action.
While the younger players are eager to earn their turn, it seems as though Haynes enters as the clubhouse leader.
“You see him as a guy that’s another leader on the team,” head coach Sherrone Moore told reporters Monday. “The dude only eats one-ingredient foods. That’s why he looks like a statue. He takes care of his body in every way.”
Haynes ran 79 times for 448 yards (5.7 yards per carry) and seven touchdowns last season at Alabama. Though he sat out the ReliaQuest Bowl (in which U-M topped Alabama, 19-13, in Tampa, Florida, on the final day of 2024), he did suit…
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