Michigan is heading into the 2024 season as the defending champs, and when you win it all the following season, you have a giant target on your back, and that is precisely what the Wolverines will face this season.
Michigan Is Going To Face Tough Competition In 2024
The Wolverines will start the season hosting Texas in Week 2. The Longhorns were one of the final four teams standing last year and even got better this season. Of course, Michigan has to face Ohio State, but they also have to face Oregon, USC, and Washington, who they beat to win it all last season.
The Wolverines Saw One Of Their Soon To Be Starters Enter The Portal On Wednesday
Even though Michigan just won the title last season, they are still losing a lot of players on both sides of the ball to the NFL, and they have even lost some to the transfer portal this winter; now that the spring portal has opened up, the Wolverines are expected to lose more players, and they lost one who could’ve started for them this year.
DJ Waller, who was expected to compete for the starting cornerback job, has decided he is done competing and will hit the portal.
The Wolverines are already thin on defense, and they got thinner on Thursday when they saw another one of their defensive players hit the portal.
The Wolverines Lose Another Star Player
Hayes Fawcett from On3.com states, “True freshman linebacker Jeremiah Beasley has signed his papers to enter the transfer portal.”
BREAKING: Michigan True Freshman LB Jeremiah Beasley has signed the papers necessary to enter the Transfer Portal, he tells @on3sports
The 6’2 235 LB from Belleville, MI will have all 4 years of eligibility remaining
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— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) April 25, 2024
Beasley was a four-star recruit and the 26th-ranked linebacker in the country in the class of 2024. Beasley got on campus earlier this year, but after only three months in the program, he decided to leave.
Losing a player only three months into his career isn’t great, but at the same time, Michigan isn’t the only school to see incoming freshmen leave their school after spring practice.
The transfer portal is the new normal in college football; players and fans must get used to it.