ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan football wrapped up its spring on Saturday after the Maize team took down the Blue squad during the Wolverines’ annual spring game.
There were several key players that didn’t play on Saturday, two of which were Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards. There is an ongoing battle going on in Ann Arbor about which player will step up and take the No. 3 running back job.
It was Kalel Mullings (Blue) and Leon Franklin (Maize) who gained the starts for both teams. Maize couldn’t get much going on the ground, the team gained just 46 yards rushing, but Blue was really good running the ball on Saturday rushing for 180 yards. Blue received a ton of productivity from both Mullings and freshman Benjamin Hall.
Mike Hart coached Maize, and his team won, so after the game, he was the coach who did the talking during the press conference. He told the media he is more confident at this time this year than he was last year with the running back room. Hart believes the team is extremely deep and a lot of guys could get the job done.
“Yeah, I think we’re really deep,” said Hart. You know, definitely feel a lot better this time of year than I did last year. You know, we got a lot of depth, the guys are gonna compete and that’ll just gonna go into fall camp but definitely feel really good about running back from right now the depth that we have in the guys can play. Again, I think we could show up today and play a game right now with the guys we have. And that’s without Blake and Donovan. So those are two of the best players on the team, two of the best players in the country. So I think we’re in a really good situation. In the running back room.”
CJ Stokes, last season’s No. 3 running back for most of the season, didn’t play on Saturday. Mullings received the start and played well, but the star of the running back show was Hall. He averaged over seven yards a carry on Saturday, gained 96 yards and scored once on the ground. Coach Hart…
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