Michigan football OL Andrew Gentry enters NCAA transfer portal
The exodus from Michigan Wolverines football‘s offensive line room continues. Junior offensive tackle Andrew Gentry has entered the NCAA transfer portal after it opened Monday at midnight, TheWolverine.com has learned.
Gentry joins fellow offensive linemen Raheem Anderson, Dominick Giudice and Tristan Bounds in entering the portal.
The 6-foot-7, 327-pounder out of Littleton, Colo., appeared in 26 games with two starts in three seasons in Ann Arbor. The 23-year-old has two years of eligibility remaining.
Gentry originally signed with Virginia as a member of the 2020 class, before taking a two-year mission trip in Utah. He reconsidered his choice after head coach Bronco Mendenhall left Virginia and decided to come to Michigan under head man Jim Harbaugh.
Gentry appeared in seven games for Michigan in 2024, including making his first two career starts. He opened a loss at Illinois Oct. 19 and a win over Michigan State Oct. 26, before going down with a season-ending foot injury. He took over the starting right tackle job in mid-October, after senior Evan Link began the year in the spot.
Helping the Wolverines win the national championship with a 15-0 record, Gentry played in all 15 outings in 2023. He saw time on special teams in every contest and on the offensive line in eight.
He redshirted as a freshman in 2022, playing in three games including two on the offensive line. He said at the time that he still had to get back up to speed and in football shape coming off the two-year mission.
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“Closer,” Gentry said in late 2022 of how he was coming along physically. “I’m not there yet. I think the toughest thing is consistency right now. I have good flashes where I say, ‘all right. I’m back where I was before.
“But there are other times when it’s like, ‘dang … I just want to be back there.’
“But it’s coming quickly … a lot quicker than I thought. Talking to other people who served missions and come back, they say it usually takes a year before your timing is back and all that’s back.”
All told, Gentry totaled 195 offensive snaps in three seasons at Michigan.
The Maize and Blue still have Link as a returning starter at offensive tackle, but is thin with depth at the position and will have to replace fifth-year senior left tackle Myles Hinton, who’s out of eligibility, after this season.
Gentry was highly touted in the 2020 class, checking in as a four-star recruit according to the On3 Industry Ranking. He slotted as the No. 63 overall player and seventh-best offensive tackle in the nation.
