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Offseason Movement: Michigan adds staffer to recruiting department

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Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore will serve a two-game suspension. (Photo by Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images)
Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore will serve a two-game suspension. (Photo by Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images)

Michigan has added another member to its recruiting department after a few departures this offseason.

Anthony Johnson will serve as a recruiting analyst for the Wolverines. He joins the U-M after six months at Pitt, where he worked as a personnel and operations assistant.

A former three-star recruit, Johnson played at Cleveland (Ohio) Heights and signed with Bowling Green as part of its 2019 recruiting class. Johnson transferred to Youngstown State and spent four seasons there, recording 45 tackles, nine tackles for loss, five sacks and one fumble recovery in 36 games.

Johnson transferred to Pitt last year but suffered a career-ending injury in a practice following the first game of the season.

Now, Johnson is making the transition from player to staffer.

This move should come as no surprise considering Michigan lost three recruiting staffers in the winter — Coleman Walker is now the Director of Player Personnel for Washington State, Cam Hughes is now the Assistant Director of Player Personnel at Jacksonville State and Jacob Weber is now a high school coach in Indiana.

Michigan also recently lost its Associate Director of On-Campus Recruiting, Joshua Bailey, who left to take over as Director of Recruiting for Georgia State.

Michigan has made plenty of recent changes to its recruiting department over the last two years. The Wolverines reassigned Albert Karschnia and promoted Sam Popper to Director of Recruiting. U-M also brought on John Collins and Jack Dunaway as Assistant Directors of Recruiting. Every on-field assistant coach was assigned a recruiting staffer to help with position recruiting.

Sherrone Moore has shown a commitment to modernizing and expanding his staff during his tenure as head coach. That will not change moving forward.

A look at position recruiting staffers

Josh Meyer (QBs) — Meyer was a student intern who spent almost three years working in the Michigan recruiting department before being promoted.

Preston Sagan (RBs) — Sagan worked as a student recruiting intern at Clemson for almost three years before arriving at U-M last offseason.

Richard Perry (WRs) — Perry was a recruiting intern at Michigan State prior to becoming a recruiting intern at Michigan and eventually an analyst.

Aidan Young (TEs) — Young worked as a recruiting intern at Oregon for two years before becoming an analyst at U-M last offseason.

Reid Kuhl (OL) — Kuhl was a general recruiting intern at Michigan before being promoted to head offensive intern and now analyst.

Daniel Litke (DL) — Litke joined Michigan’s staff this offseason after spending time in the scouting department at Kansas.

Avery Bean (LB) — Bean was hired this offseason after spending two years as a student recruiting analyst at Alabama.

Jack Turner (S/STs) — Turner was a recruiting intern at Wake Forest and also served as the Assistant Director of Football Operations at Davidson. He joined the U-M staff last offseason.

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