Michigan football LB Jason Hewlett commits to Boston College out of transfer portal
Michigan football LB Jason Hewlett commits to Boston College out of transfer portal
Michigan football appears to have an exceptionally deep front seven entering the 2025 season, with a strong defensive front and an increasingly deep linebacking corps.
While the Wolverines only had two obvious linebackers a year ago in starters Ernest Hausmann and Jaishawn Barham, now Jimmy Rolder, Cole Sullivan, transfer Troy Bowles, and freshman Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng appear to be set to be in rotation (as does Jaydon Hood, who's coming off a reported injury).
The maize and blue had added four players out of the state of Ohio following the 2022 win over the Buckeyes in The Shoe, and among them was linebacker Jason Hewlett. The other three had since transferred and this spring, Hewlett joined them in departing the Wolverines.
And on Wednesday, he made his choice of his next school, joining Bill O'Brien at Boston College.
The Wolverines should be in good shape in the room, as said. Sherrone Moore mentioned more about the depth of the group on the In the Trenches podcast on Wednesday:
"Yeah, Jimmy (Rolder), to us, is another starter. I feel like we got three true starters in that room with those guys, and then adding a guy like Cole Sullivan, who really can play multiple spots too, but those three, and all three of those guys are seniors, but they're all guys that there's many packages where they're all three on the field at the same time, and we're gonna feel like we're gonna need that to win the big games."
Michigan has lost a lot of linebackers to the transfer portal in recent years, with Hayden Moore, Semaj Bridgeman, Jeremiah Beasley, and now Hewlett all departing. But, as noted, the Wolverines added Troy Bowles from Georgia this offseason, along with two freshmen, Owusu-Boateng, and Chase Taylor.
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