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Newsstand: Michigan football announces team awards for 2022

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome12/19/22anthonytbroome
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Michigan football hosted its team banquet on Sunday and revealed its award winners for the 2022 season. It was been a wonderful year for the Wolverines on the field, who still have plenty of business to attend to still with major goals still ahead of them.

Michigan’s MVP of the season was junior running back Blake Corum, while its offensive and defensive players of the year were sophomore quarterback J.J. McCarthy and senior defensive tackle Mazi Smith, respectively.

Plenty of other hardware was handed out on Sunday. Below is a full recap of the winners:

Bo Schembechler Most Valuable Player: RB Blake Corum

Toughest Player: RB Blake Corum

Blue Collar: RB Blake Corum

Defensive Player of the Year: DT Mazi Smith

Defensive Skill Player of the Year: DB Mike Sainristil

Roger Zatkoff Award: LB Junior Colson

Richard Katcher Award: EDGE Mike Morris

Offensive Player of the Year: QB J.J. McCarthy

Offensive Skill Player of the Year: WR Ronnie Bell

Hugh H. Rader Award: OL Olu Oluwatimi

Special Teams Player of the Year: WR AJ Henning

Specialist of the Year: K Jake Moody

Robert P. Ufer Bequest: P Brad Robbins

Dr. Arthur D. Robinson Scholarship Award: DB Caden Kolesar

Most Improved Player Offense: OL Karsen Barnhart

Most Improved Player Defense: LB Mike Barrett

Most Improved Player Special Teams: TE Matthew Hibner, WR Eamonn Dennis

Rookie of the Year Offense: TE Colston Loveland

Rookie of the Year Defense: CB Will Johnson, DT Mason Graham

Rookie of the Year Special Teams: LB Jimmy Rolder, TE Colston Loveland

Scout Team Player of the Year: WR Zach Peterson (Offense), DB Jesse Madden (Defense), LB Joel Metzger (Special Teams)

Tweets of the day

Michigan quote of the day

“Factors would just be to up my draft stock, to put better, more film on tape at the inside ‘backer,’ feel like I don’t have as much film starting inside. That’s one factor. And I just don’t want to be too old, if that makes sense. I feel like I’ve been here too long. I don’t want everybody looking at me like an old man around here. Nah, I’m joking, but that’s one thing that is in the back of my mind.”

– Graduate linebacker Michael Barrett on potentially returning for a 6th season

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