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How many years of eligibility each Michigan football player has remaining

clayton-sayfieby:Clayton Sayfie•08/27/22•

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Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh was the Associated Press Coach of the Year in 2021. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

Michigan Wolverines football returns quite a bit of its production from the 2021 season, but the squad only has five players who will be out of eligibility after the 2022 campaign. That’s an extremely lower number than normal but is due to the NCAA deeming the 2020-21 academic year a ‘free year’ when it comes to an athlete’s eligibility.

As we saw this offseason, most players will still not stick around for a fifth or sixth season — either by their choice or the program’s. Michigan and other football teams across the country still need to meet the 85 scholarship limit, even with players having extra eligibility.

Starting this season, The Wolverine is referring to Michigan players by the class U-M lists them as on its official roster. U-M uses five ways to refer to an athlete’s class: Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior and graduate.

Here’s a look at the Michigan football roster, as of Aug. 26, 2022, and how we will refer to scholarship players.

NOTE: Remaining years of remaining eligibility are listed in parentheses next to the player’s name. Remaining eligibility includes this coming season, which begins Sept. 3 against Colorado State.

Graduates — 15

• EDGE Eyabi Anoma (2)

• LB Michael Barrett (2)

• WR Ronnie Bell (2)

• QB Alan Bowman (2)

• DB Gemon Green (2)

• DB German Green (2)

• DL Cam Goode (2)

• OL Ryan Hayes (2)

• TE Joel Honigford (1)

• DB Quinten Johnson (3)

• K Jake Moody (1)

• OL Olusegun Oluwatimi (1)

• P Brad Robbins (1)

• TE Luke Schoonmaker (2)

• TE Carter Selzer (1)

• EDGE Taylor Upshaw (2)

• EDGE Julius Welschof (2)

Seniors — 16

• TE Erick All (2)

• OL Karsen Barnhart (3)

• WR Cornelius Johnson (2)

• OL Trente Jones (3)

• OL Trevor Keegan (3)

• DB Caden Kolesar (3)

• QB Cade McNamara (3)

• EDGE Mike Morris (3)

• DB Jalen Perry (3)

• WR/DB Mike Sainristil (2)

• DL Mazi Smith (3)

• DB DJ Turner (3)

• LB Joey Velazquez (3)

• LS William Wagner (3)

Juniors — 15

• OL Reece Atteberry (3)

• RB Blake Corum (3)

• WR Eamonn Dennis (4)

• LB Jaylen Harrell (3)

• WR A.J. Henning (3)

• TE Matthew Hibner (3)

• LB Nikhai Hill-Green (3)

• DL Kris Jenkins (3)

• EDGE Braiden McGregor (3)

• DB R.J. Moten (3)

• LB Kalel Mullings (3)

• DB Makari Paige (3)

• OL Jeffrey Persi (4)

• WR Roman Wilson (3)

• OL Zak Zinter (3)

Note: Two Michigan players in this class — Dennis and Persi — played in four or less games in 2021, giving them a redshirt season on top of the free year in 2020.

Sophomores — 22

• OL Raheem Anderson (4)

• WR Andrel Anthony (3)

• EDGE Kechaun Bennett (4)

• DL Rayshaun Benny (4)

• OL Tristan Bounds (4)

• LB Junior Colson (3)

• OL Greg Crippen (3)

• WR Cristian Dixon (4)

• K/P Tommy Doman (4)

• RB Tavierre Dunlap (4)

• RB Donovan Edwards (3)

• OL Giovanni El-Hadi (4)

• DL Dominick Giudice (4)

• EDGE TJ Guy (4)

• TE Louis Hansen (4)

• LB Jaydon Hood (4)

• DL Ike Iwunnah (4)

• CB Ja’Den McBurrows (4)

• QB J.J. McCarthy (3)

• EDGE Tyler McLaurin (4)

• DB Rod Moore (3)

• DL George Rooks (4)

Note: Six Michigan sophomore played in more than four games in 2021, burning their redshirt season and giving them just three years of remaining eligibility.

Freshmen — 23

• DB Zeke Berry (4)

• WR Darrius Clemons (4)

• QB Jayden Denegal (4)

• DB Damani Dent (4)

• OL Andrew Gentry (4)

• DL Mason Graham (4)

• DL Kenneth Grant (4)

• DB Will Johnson (4)

• OL Connor Jones (4)

• DB Kody Jones (4)

• TE Marlin Klein (4)

• OL Alessandro Lorenzetti (4)

• TE Colston Loveland (4)

• EDGE Derrick Moore (4)

• WR Tyler Morris (4)

 • QB Alex Orji (4)

• EDGE Micah Pollard (4)

• DB Myles Pollard (4)

• LB Jimmy Rolder (4)

• DB Keon Sabb (4)

• LB Deuce Spurlock (4)

• RB CJ Stokes (4)

• WR Amorion Walker (4)

Note: Michigan had 13 early enrollees, with 10 more freshmen who joined the team this summer.

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