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Chip Lindsey's offense has Michigan WRs excited for 2025

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome•04/02/25•

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Fredrick Moore
Michigan Wolverines football wide receiver Fredrick Moore caught his first career touchdown pass against Alabama. (Photo by Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines are in the middle of a spring overhaul on offense under new coordinator/quarterbacks coach Chip Lindsey, who is expected to unleash the passing game a bit more compared to the program’s history.

Right now, the team is going through basic installs in spring ball and setting a foundation for the pass catchers.

“We have some talented players there,” Lindsey said on March 17. “I think my challenge to those guys has been, who’s going to be the playmaker? We’ve got to figure that out. Who do we need to get the ball to? And it’s a great opportunity this spring for those guys to get a lot of reps and get a lot of balls. 

“And then who can make one-on-one contested catches? Who can get open versus tight coverage? Who can play the position at a high level? Because when you get into game planning and things, I think that’s what you do as a coordinator. Who do we need to get the ball to, and how do we do it? 

“We’ve got to figure out who those guys are, and we’re hoping somebody will step to the front.”

Two Michigan receivers who are in the mix for expanded roles within the new offense are junior Fredrick Moore and graduate transfer Donaven McCulley. Both spoke to the media on Wednesday afternoon and shared their excitement about what’s to come.

“Chip is my guy,” Moore said at Schembechler Hall on April 2. “He started off in high school and is now in a collegiate level. [With him, we’ve gotten] better with throwing the ball downfield. He still has a good running game. The concepts we run, we are running NFL [stuff] and running every route on the route tree.

 ”We’ve been putting in a lot of new stuff in. At the end of the day, it’s like going to class at Michigan.”

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Moore finished his sophomore season with 11 catches for 128 yards and a touchdown, which fell short of the mark for his and the team’s expectations. Michigan’s current spring ball circuit has served as a reset.

 ”Every season is just an opportunity for a reset,” Moore said. “We’re just getting better… Coach Chip is a running back-friendly coach and he’s a wide receiver-friendly coach. We’re gonna be more balanced, so we’ll get our opportunities downfield and our opportunities off play actions and stuff like that. It should be an exciting season.

McCulley transferred in last December and has a chance to compete for a prominent role in the Michigan wideout room. Lindsey’s system was a big reason he decided to come to Ann Arbor.

“Fast paced,” McCulley said of the offense. “We are gonna throw the ball down the field. And I think that’s his vision. Of course, we are going to set the line of scrimmage and stuff like that with the run game. But I think he really wants to get the ball down the field a lot more.”

Michigan hopes the hard reset will benefit everyone, and Lindsey saw the missed chances on film when he looked at the tape from he 2024 season.

“When you go back and look, I think there’s opportunities that were missed from [the quarterback room],” Lindsey said in March. “There are opportunities that guys maybe didn’t make plays when you count on them to make plays. Whatever the question is. So I guess from my standpoint, we’re starting ground one. We’re kind of moving forward on that.

“I want to see it for myself. Because the one thing you try to do, I think, when you’re new — especially you come into a situation like this — is really try to make your own decisions on things and not let things kind of cloud you up.”

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