Michigan has only just begun its fall practice and rumors are already swirling that one of the top incoming recruits is already taking snaps at a new position.
While on The Huge Show on Monday (listen here), Rivals.com’s Chris Balas said that he has heard Zach Gentry, a four-star QB recruit out of New Mexico, has been taking some snaps at TE. Balas said that while this is definitely not a permanent switch, Harbaugh wants to get playmakers on the field and the 6-foot-7, 230-pound Gentry (4.5 40-yard-dash) is too good to keep off the field and redshirt his freshman year.
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In an article from the Detroit Free Press from back in January, Gentry’s high school coach explained that he once played wide receiver as a sophomore and is athletic enough to play multiple positions in college:
“We were in the state quarterfinals and we moved him — he had never played wide receiver — and we moved him to wide receiver, and he caught eight or nine balls,” Eldorado coach Charlie Dotson told the Detroit Free Press. “He had never played the position, but we didn’t want to leave him on the sideline. … He out-jumped guys, ran routes. He probably could, in college, play three or four different … positions.”
Defensive end. Tight end. Receiver. Any of them.
Jake Butt, Khalid Hill, A.J. Williams, Chase Winovich, Henry Poggi and Tyrone Wheatley Jr. are the current tight ends on Michigan’s roster.
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