Lou Esposito On 'Freak' Kenneth Grant, Young Players Stepping Up | Michigan Football #GoBlue

I think the the biggest thing coming into Camp was us for to build some depth right and I think the guys have done a great job Ike n o Trey Pierce have really growing from the spring from where they were in the spring to where they are now is light years ahead still we got to keep getting better with those guys I think there's a good group of guys that are proven Commodities that have played uh and these young guys are going to play I mean Trey played a little bit last year as a freshman uh he'll be a true sophomore en know's a red shirt fr freshman and then ik being a junior who's been in the program his physically developed and done a great job over the summer of really changing his body he at 310 lb kid now and when you look at him uh he looks slim for a 300 I know that sounds weird but he looks slim for a 310b kid and he's done a great job uh so those three guys have got to still got to keep working every day we got to keep Force feeding them reps put them in pressure situations right like how they the difference between being a really good D lineman and an average D linan is how you handle those hard situations and the good thing about here at Michigan we practice extremely hard we go we tackle we're physical both sides of the ball and it's always been that way here and it always will be that way here so I think those guys get that that callous early and that's what we're trying to do with those guys have done a great job and it's not even really the schedule it's game to game right like he's put himself in better shape uh he's in football shape I think the last 14 days of practice he has really stepped up like we talk about those guys guys that are kind of uh unknown a little bit like those younger guys that haven't played have come light years from where they were kg condition wise playing low pad level using his hands playing with his eyes the last 14 days have been Elite and those are the things that we need for our guys to be better uh as far as numbers of plays like you ballpark it you want to be around 40 if he's around 40 you feel good about that uh but there might be games where he plays less there might be games where he plays more depending on what the situation is and where we are in the game I think the good thing about all those guys that are proving Commodities they all want more plays they want to be in I mean there's times in practice where you're trying to pull them out and he's like coach I got it I got it give me another play Give me another play so I think those guys will be great but it's game to game uh and the more depth you have you trust guys more right so we've done that we've built depth through that position they've been successful here in the past because they've had great depth at the D line especially interior we have great depth on the edge we have good inside and the more those guys can get on the field the better the better we can play and uh you know kg being 40 plays is probably about where you want to be

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