WATCH: Ron Bellamy, LaMar Morgan discuss Michigan fall camp

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Ron Bellamy and secondary coach and defensive pass game coordinator LaMar Morgan met with the media Monday afternoon to discuss fall camp. Watch video from their sessions with reporters below.

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Wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Ron Bellamy

Secondary coach and defensive pass game coordinator LaMar Morgan

Notes from Michigan press conferences

• Junior wide receivers Semaj Morgan and Fredrick Moore are “older” and “more experienced” this season, and they’ve “attacked the offseason.” Those two were on a national championship team, Bellamy pointed out, meaning they know what the program’s standards are.

• Graduate Anthony Simpson, a UMass transfer that joined the team this summer, is “explosive” and brings a “veteran presence” to the wide receiving corps.

• Bellamy said that Michigan is motivated by not having a 1,000-yard wide receiver since Jeremy Gallon in 2013. It’s something that’s talked about amongst the wide receivers, and the hope every year is that someone emerges as having the ability to pass the century mark. Michigan doesn’t “chase numbers,” but it does come up.

• The “sky’s the limit” for Michigan’s passing game in 2025. Head coach Sherrone Moore and offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey are “confident” that the Wolverines will be able to throw the ball effectively this season. But Michigan “can’t talk about it, gotta be about it.”

• Michigan’s nickel back position is an “older position,” played by a trusted Wolverine. Morgan mentioned that some of the program’s best recent DBs were at that spot.

• Michigan is rotating “six or seven” players in at nickel, including Jyaire Hill, junior TJ Metcalf, sophomore Mason Curtis and senior Zeke Berry. Morgan mentioned that sophomores Jeremiah Lowe and Tevis Metcalf are also seeing time there.

• Hill is “loaded with talent,” but it’s taken him some time to develop. He believes that Hill had pressure playing opposite Will Johnson last season and is now ready for the pressure that comes with having a bigger role. He’s “matured,” and Michigan’s coaching and strength staffs have “challenged” him this offseason to reach a high bar. He’s “still silly, but knows when to flip that switch.”

• Curtis is playing both nickel and safety, and he will “move around.” He has a “high ceiling.”

• The plan for Berry this season is the same as last season — to “move him around” at both nickel and corner.