Why Michigan football WR Tyler Morris appears ready for featured role

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — If you pay close attention to what Michigan football is putting out on social media during spring ball, you’ll notice a frequently featured face in many of the posts — and it’s not someone who made a big contribution last season.

Now wearing Ronnie Bell’s No. 8, second-year wide receiver Tyler Morris has an opportunity to replace him, especially considering they feature similar skills, size and athleticism. And the pictures that have made their way to social media from the program indicate that Morris is doing just that.

There are multiple shots of Morris making plays, usually a harbinger of future success. If you’re making plays in practice, you’re likely to be heavily featured in games. And since Morris is entering his sophomore season, there’s a higher likelihood he’ll be in heavy rotation.

On Thursday, he spoke about how the spring is going compared to last year, when he couldn’t participate fully while still recovering from the ACL injury he sustained in his senior year of high school.

“I feel like it’s going good. For me just a lot more comfortable,” Morris said. “Last year, freshman year, you’re trying to figure everything out. You don’t know the offense, you don’t really know just how to program works completely. I was still trying to come back from my knee a little bit. So this year, I feel like I’m just more comfortable, used to things, know how it goes. So it’s not too much, trying to figure everything out as much.”

Morris says he finally became fully healthy in May of last year, after spring ball concluded. Thus, he didn’t really get his first real taste of college football until fall — first in camp, then in games.

Now that he’s full go and has time to look back, he says that thinks are moving much slower than they were previously.

“I think just how fast it goes. We’re putting plays in, everything’s moving fast, you got to figure everything out,” Morris said. “There’s…