WATCH: Michigan assistants LaMar Morgan and Steve Casula speak from fall camp
ANN ARBOR – Michigan Wolverines assistants Lamar Morgan and Steve Casula, the defensive backs and tight ends coaches, respectively, spoke to the media on Sunday afternoon with a little less than two weeks to go until the season opener.
Among the topics discussed include the starting nickel job with junior Zeke Berry leading the pack there, taking the baton from program stalwart Mike Sainrsitil, who set the standard at the position for the Wolverines.
Snippets from both media sessions can be viewed using the embedded media players or on our YouTube channel.
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“I love Zeke,” Morgan said. “Zeke’s going to be a guy that we’re going to try to move around. He’s playing high and low. He’s trying to take on that role of trying to be a leader. We have some talented guys like Zeke; they just haven’t played as much. So you’re just building confidence in those guys, reps in when they don’t feel well, when their body’s sore.
“But I think Zeke is probably the leader in that nickel role right now, J-Mac behind him. We’ve been playing some of the other guys behind them, but the two guys that’s been playing nickel the most at practice have been Zeke Berry and J-Mac.”
Casula speaks on Colston Loveland, Michigan TEs
Michigan tight end Colston Loveland could wind up being the focal point of the passing game, and he is playing much faster than he has in his career to this point. Casula told the media what he has seen from the star pass catcher during his session on Sunday.
“Colston has moved around great,” Casula said during his media availablity. “And I don’t know if he went and ran a 40-yard dash or a 100-meter yard dash what the time would be. But when the ball is snapped, he’s got such great functional movement skills. He wastes no movement. And he is so thoughtful about his plan of attack in both the run and pass game.
When you have a plan before the ball snaps and a high-level understanding of football and the system, you’re able to do things a little bit faster. But yeah, he’s playing faster than what I was exposed to in the spring. He’s playing really well and that starts with him and starts with just kind of who we are as an offense.”
