Regardless, Michigan added former four-star Troy Bowles, son of Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles, who started his career at Georgia. Senior starter, Ernest Hausmann, knows what it's like to transfer (as he started his career at Nebraska before coming to Ann Arbor in 2023) and he's liked what he's seen from Bowles thus far.

Michigan football started out spring ball on Tuesday and had its first of 15 practices (including the spring game on April 19) in preparation for the 2025 season. The deeper side of the ball between offense and defense definitely appears to be the latter as the majority of players who will either start or be in deep rotation dominated in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Alabama in December.

If it’s true a positive performance in a bowl game can be a springboard into the next season, then Michigan’s defensive players must be feeling good.