WATCH: Grant Newsome, LaMar Morgan provide Michigan football updates pre-Purdue

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football offensive line coach Grant Newsome and defensive backs coach and pass game coordinator LaMar Morgan meet with the media Wednesday afternoon ahead of their team’s game against Purdue Saturday at The Big House. Watch video of Newsome in the player at the top of the screen and Morgan in the embed below.

Key quotes from Michigan assistant coaches Grant Newsome, LaMar Morgan

Grant Newsome
• On the way Michigan sophomore Blake Frazier played in his first career start at left tackle: “Really proud of him and how he’s come in and stepped up. Sometimes, with all three of those guys, you forget they’re redshirt freshmen sometimes, which is a good thing. It’s a good thing, but sometimes as coaches you have to remind yourself, hey, he hasn’t seen that before, he hasn’t played four years of football or he hasn’t seen that look before or how to adjust to that on the fly. But proud of him and how he went in. It wasn’t perfect, obviously, but he’s out there, he’s fighting and he’s getting better every week.”

• On having three redshirt freshmen starting on Michigan’s offensive line: “I’ve seen everyone have injuries, and probably wouldn’t have gone into the season thinking this would be our fifth starting combination in eight games. It’s obviously not what you hope for, but it’s what you have to prepare for. It’s something that Coach Moore has always maintained, that you have to have 10 guys ready, and I think we’ve started eight or nine of them. It shows the depth we have in our room, and it’s a credit to those young guys like Blake who, even when he was not the starter, was still preparing as if he was and kind of waiting for his opportunity, whether that came to injury or whether that came from beating someone out and earning a job.”

LaMar Morgan
• On Michigan junior cornerback Jyaire Hill’s ascension: “I think Jyaire, like I told you all when I first came in right before the season, I think he’s a unique kid, and he’s doing a good job of his film study and working on that. I think he’s trying to become a complete football player, not just an athlete that’s playing corner. I think he knows routes and combinations and all of that stuff, and that’s a lot of credit to him and his film study. I think he’s done a better job learning that it takes time. I know everybody in society wants the kids to be ready right now — it’s a microwave society — but I just think it takes time, especially at that position.