Wolverine TV: Jack Tuttle, AJ Barner, Kenneth Grant talk Michigan football spring practice
Michigan Wolverines football graduate quarterback Jack Tuttle, graduate tight end AJ Barner and sophomore defensive tackle Kenneth Grant met with the media to discuss the team’s spring practices, which are nearing an end and will conclude with an April 1 intrasquad game in front of fans at The Big House.
Barner and Tuttle both discussed why they transferred from Indiana to Michigan this offseason. Both were captains for the Hoosiers but had relationships here, including with running backs coach and run game coordinator Mike Hart, who was an assist in Bloomington previously.
“There were a lot of relationships,” Tuttle, Michigan’s newest member of the quarterback room, said. “Obviously, relationships, for me, to come here … I knew [Michigan head] Coach Harbaugh, Coach Hart before. That’s what really sparked coming here for me.
“Just adjusting … every program has a different culture. Adjusting to that and the new locker room and the people, which obviously have been fantastic. AJ and I both came from the same place, so that’s been helpful, and we’re rooming together.”
“I think just the style of football they play — running the ball, being physical up front,” Barner said. “The opportunity to be a tight end here and the way they use their tight ends and just the tradition here … you walk around here, we’re getting close to 1,000 wins. Football means a whole bunch to this place, and that’s something that I care a lot about. That opportunity was just something that I couldn’t pass up.”
Grant, meanwhile, is a returning player on the Michigan defensive line and is a breakout candidate for this fall. He’s up to 345 pounds now — he played at 335 last season — and is already a “freak,” according to The Athletic‘s Bruce Feldman.
“It definitely made me strive to be bigger and better in the weight room,” Grant said. “It definitely put that fire to me, like there are a lot of eyes on me and I gotta keep grinding no matter what and keep doing the best I can.”
Watch video from the Michigan press conferences below.
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