Michigan OL Dominick Giudice will enter NCAA transfer portal
Michigan Wolverines football is set to lose an offensive lineman with starting experience. Senior interior lineman Dominick Giudice will enter the NCAA transfer portal, he announced Sunday.
The 6-foot-4, 310-pounder spent four seasons with the Wolverines, playing in 18 games with five starts at center.
Giudice, who claims he has two seasons of eligibility remaining, made his announcement on social media, thanking Michigan and looking ahead to the future.
“After four incredible years at Michigan, I’ve decided to enter the transfer portal,” Giudice wrote. I want to thank Michigan for giving me the opportunity to play football at this amazing university. I’m super blessed and grateful to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the many blessings he has given me throughout this journey. I’m excited for what’s ahead and look forward to making the most of my remaining two years of eligibility.
All five of Giudice’s starts came in 2024. He won the starting center job out of fall camp, surprisingly beating out senior Greg Crippen, and opened the first six games at the position. Crippen later revealed he battled injury during fall camp, which could’ve had something to do with the result of the competition.
Injury was one of the reasons why Giudice didn’t hold on to the job this season, though. He missed the Oct. 5 game at Washington with an injury and never earned the spot back. He did play backup snaps at right guard at Indiana Nov. 9 and center versus Northwestern Nov. 23.
Giudice is a converted defensive lineman. He spent his freshman season on defense before playing both ways as a sophomore in 2022. Then-head coach Jim Harbaugh had the idea of moving him to the offensive line.
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“Coach Harbaugh actually pulled me into his office right before my sophomore season and said he had an idea about me moving to the offensive side of the ball,” Giudice explained.
“I was a little surprised, honestly. I liked playing defensive line, but I thought it would be a great opportunity, because obviously Coach Harbaugh has made decisions with other players like that before, and it’s worked out, as you’ve seen with Mike Sainristil and some other guys.
“I wouldn’t not trust his judgement, so if he saw that as a good fit for me … obviously I thought about it a little bit, but I thought it was something that would work out for me. Clearly it has, thank God.”
Giudice played in six total games in 2022 and 2023 (three a piece) after seeing time in two contests in 2021.
A Freehold (N.J.) Mater Dei product, Giudice was a three-star recruit and the nation’s No. 1,590 player in the 2021 class. His senior class is the winningest in Michigan history, even though he won’t finish the season with the Wolverines. U-M has one game left, a bowl game to be determined.
