Sherrone Moore feels ‘really good’ about Michigan football O-line

Jim Harbaugh might have said it best when the Los Angeles Chargers drafted an offensive tackle with their first-round pick. He said they viewed offensive linemen as weapons, which is definitely how they were viewed when he was at Michigan football.

Looking back at the Penn State game from 2023, I’m sure Sherrone Moore views the offensive line as a weapon. The Wolverines ran the ball 32 straight times in that game. They did it because they could and he felt because they had to with some of the pass-protection issues.

Truth be told, the offensive line has been as important as any piece in the three-year run by Michigan football. The defense has been elite and J.J. McCarthy is the best college quarterback the Wolverines have ever had, but the offensive line helped make all that happen.

The five-touchdown game from Hassan Haskins. Donovan Edwards’ long touchdown runs and all the special things done by Blake Corum, were aided by the offensive line. That group is also one of the reasons I have confidence in Michigan football this season.

Michigan football head coach feels good about O-line

Sherrone Moore has proven he knows how to develop an elite offensive line. Grant Newsome is learning but Moore said that Newsome “is a beast” and that he’ll be a head coach in a few years.

Michigan’s offensive line will need to play well for that to happen. But my guess is that there won’t be much dropoff. Moore praised center Greg Crippen when he met with the media on Thursday at a satellite camp.

“Crippen was really good. I saw him take a step really mentally,” Moore said. “That’s really what he needed to do, because physically he could do it. Mentally, just calming his mind down, he was really good at that.”

Josh Priebe is another guy to feel good about. Myles Hinton is one of the most talented tackles in the Big Ten, while Giovanni El Hadi, like Crippen, isn’t a guy I’m worried about.

I expect the offensive line to be among the best in the Big Ten and Moore sounds confident in the Michigan football offensive line too.

“The line should be good,” Moore said. “Obviously we lost guys, but years before we lost guys, so that’s going to happen. Trevor Keegan and Zak Zinter couldn’t play there for 10 years, even though they probably wish they could.

“But we feel really good about the guys that we got in, the little battles within each group. The mindset, the foundation of who we are and what that group is, is in that room. We’re just ready to see what the next guys do.

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