Michigan football loses two defenders to the transfer portal
Michigan Wolverines football has lost its first two players of the offseason to the transfer portal, with linebacker Anthony Solomon and cornerback Darion Green-Warren both entering their names into the NCAA’s transfer database Monday. Neither player were major contributors to the team’s Big Ten championship season.
Solomon appeared in five games this season, seeing action on special teams in all five and on defense in just one (with five snaps on defense). He saw action in 23 career contests for the Wolverines, totaling 42 defensive snaps in three seasons. He registered six tackles.
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The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native was a four-star recruit and the No. 265 player in the class of 2019, per the On3 consensus. He posted 63 tackles, seven tackles for loss, three sacks, three fumble recoveries and one forced fumble during his senior year at national powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas.
Solomon primary played special teams throughout his career, and was a ‘viper’ in former coordinator Don Brown‘s defense. He transitioned to middle linebacker once Mike Macdonald took control of the unit, but wasn’t enough of a fit to see the field for any meaningful action.
The Wolverines have eight scholarship middle linebackers on the roster, and are bringing in another this summer in four-star Jimmy Rolder, a 2022 recruit out of the Chicago area.
Meanwhile, Green-Warren was even higher rated out of high school — slotting 187th overall in the 2020 class and also being regarded as a four-star — but did not see game action in his two seasons in Ann Arbor.
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Green-Warren was a significant pickup on the recruiting trail, after participating in the All-American Bowl and registering 16 tackles, six of which were tackles for loss, and eight pass breakups as a senior at Torrance (Calif.) Narbonne, but he never produced in a winged helmet.
Michigan has 10 cornerbacks with eligibility remaining that are currently on the roster, plus two in the incoming freshman class — five-star Will Johnson and three-star Myles Pollard, along with other defensive back signees who have positional flexibility.
Michigan had double-digit transfers out of the program last offseason but saw no players depart during the course of the season. One athlete — Virginia center Olu Oluwatimi — has committed as an incoming transfer and will join the team this semester.
Watch for more on these developments and potential roster shakeups in the hours and days to come at TheWolverine.com.
