Newsstand: Four top Michigan football recruiting targets set to announce this week

Tweets Of The Day

This could be a big week for Michigan Wolverines football on the recruiting trail. The Maize and Blue are awaiting announcements from four top targets — four-star offensive lineman Amir Herring (July 7), five-star wide receiver Jalen Brown (July 8) and four-star EDGEs Enow Etta and Collins Acheampong. Etta tweeted hinting that he’d announce Friday, before deleting the post shortly thereafter.

Herring is set to make his commitment tonight at his high school, West Bloomfield (Mich.) High. TheWolverine.com will be in attendance, and the commitment will be streamed live on our YouTube channel.

Miami is the perceived favorite for Brown, and the Hurricanes are also in the mix for Acheampong. Michigan’s top competition for Etta appears to be Stanford and Michigan State.

Stay tuned to TheWolverine.com for coverage on all four recruitments and all of your U-M recruiting information.

@UMichFootball 2023 targets scheduled to announce their commitments the next 2 days 👀

Buckle up!!!! pic.twitter.com/WHBqKERorR

— Double BB (@BBsBigHouse1) July 6, 2022

Princeton graduate transfer Jaelin Llewellyn, the favorite to start at point guard next season, is enrolled at U-M and going through workouts with Michigan Wolverines basketball. He posted photos on his Instagram account that revealed his jersey number, too.

Llewellyn is set to don No. 3 at Michigan, per his Instagram. That, of course, is a legendary number in Ann Arbor, especially when it comes to point guards. Of note, Trey Burke, the 2013 consensus National Player of the Year, sported the digit from 2011-13.

Burke led Michigan to the 2013 national title game, where the Wolverines fell to Louisville. The Columbus, Ohio, native averaged 18.6 points, 6.7 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game, while shooting 50.6 percent from inside the arc and 38.4 percent from three-point range that year. He nailed the game-tying three-pointer to send the Wolverines’ Sweet 16 game against Kansas into overtime. The play stands as one of the most memorable shots in recent NCAA Tournament history.

The next Michigan player to wear No. 3 was wing Kameron Chatman from 2014-16. After he transferred out of the program, point guard Zavier Simpson used the number from 2016-20. Simpson won 108 career games, which is tied for second among all Michigan players through history. Guard Zeb Jackson took the digit over from there, sporting it from 2020-22, before he also transferred and committed to VCU this offseason.

Looks like Michigan PG Jaelin Llewellyn (@13jaelin) will wear No. 3 👀 pic.twitter.com/x7iBQlY2UZ

— Clayton Sayfie (@CSayf23) July 6, 2022

Quote Of The Day

“Everybody kept telling me, ‘You’re never going to beat Ohio State,’ so I’m like, ‘OK, when I’m on the field and we play Ohio State, I promise you I’m not losing that game.’”

Michigan sophomore safety Rod Moore on the Blue By 90 podcast

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