Michigan rising star promoted as an offensive line

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Grant Newsome is stepping up. For a long time, Michigan football supporters saw him as a rising star among coaches.

Grant Newsome is stepping up. For a long time, Michigan football supporters saw him as a rising star among coaches.

According to multiple people with knowledge of the matter, the former Wolverine player will be elevated to offensive line coach after serving as U-M’s tight ends coach for the past two seasons. Michigan is hoping that Newsome, the OL coach, can carry on the high standards set by Sherrone Moore, who was promoted to head coach last week.

Under Jim Harbaugh, Newsome played offensive lineman at Michigan from 2015 to 2016, but his playing career was cut short by a catastrophic knee injury. He returned to the football program in a formal coaching role after receiving two degrees from the University of Michigan, serving as assistant tight ends coach from 2018 to 2019 and tight ends coach from 2022 to 2023.

For Newsome, a Michigan native with a bachelor’s and master’s degree, coaching wasn’t a guarantee. He worked as a Washington intern for US Representative Debbie Dingell in 2019. Jim Harbaugh has always expressed his belief that Newsome would make an excellent US president in the future and shares anecdotes about how the 26-year-old chose to focus on football over jobs in politics and banking.

Last autumn, Jim Harbaugh stated, “[Grant Newsome] is the tight ends coach now, but already grooming him to be the offensive line coach.” “And like Sherrone Moore, he’ll be the coordinator after he’s been the offensive line coach for a year or two. And then someone will pick him up to be a head coach at that moment, when we are unable to give him any more money or titles.

“Make careful note of what I say. It is going to occur.

In an interview conducted last autumn, Harbaugh went on to commend Newsome, saying, “He’s going all the way.” He is going to become head coach and coach at the greatest level. The question is not whether, but when. In my opinion, he remains the youngest full-time football coach in Power 5 and perhaps all of Division I.

I am not positive. He’s merely a person who, since his freshman year on campus, has fulfilled every requirement. He still has, I believe, our highest GPA. incredibly intelligent, but also incredibly hardworking and affable. Players like and respect him. He is adored by all the other coaches. Because of his extreme precision, he could have been doing anything.

As for Newsome, as he explained in 2022, his dreams are firmly rooted in Ann Arbor.

“There’s no ‘Well, I’m here, but maybe I won’t be if the job down the street opens up,'” I want to be here,” Newsome declared. “Being the head coach here one day is obviously the dream.”

The defending national champions have promoted Newsome to offensive line coach in recognition of his dedication. He will also have his work cut out for him because the Wolverines will be starting a new lineup with Trente Jones as their sixth player and the departures of LaDarius Henderson, Drake Nugent, Zak Zinter, Trevor Keegan, and Karsen Barnhart to the NFL.

However, as both Moore and Harbaugh noted frequently during the 2023 campaign, U-M’s offensive line had about ten men on it. And the program starts 2024 confident in its talent and coaching after winning back-to-back Joe Moore Awards in 2021 and 2022 and then leading the Wolverines to a national championship.