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Jim Harbaugh may have decided to coach the Chargers after capping off his time at Michigan with a national championship, but one of the players who helped him win a title seems to think he’s gearing up for a sizeable Wolverine reunion in Los Angeles.
It took him close to a decade, but Jim Harbaugh was able to do what he set out to do when he replaced Brady Hoke as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines prior to the start of the 2015 season by leading his squad to a victory over Washington in the College Football Playoff National Championship last year.
Harbaugh had routinely been at the center of rumors concerning a potential move to the NFL in the years leading up to the title, so while it was easy to dismiss the latest round of speculation, he ultimately opted to bring his era in Ann Arbor to an end by linking up with the Los Angeles Chargers.
There’s little doubt Harbaugh would’ve faced an uphill battle in a quest to defend the championship when you consider more than a dozen players who were instrumental in that run declared for the 2024 NFL Draft in the immediate wake of the title game (Michigan ultimately broke a record previously set by LSU in 2020 when 18 Wolverines were invited to the Scouting Combine).
There’s no telling how many of those guys will ultimately be selected when the NFL Draft kicks off in Detroit on April 25th, but based on what former Michigan wide receiver Roman Wilson had to say during a recent interview, he seems to think Harbaugh will do what he can to break another record Georgia set when 15 players were scooped up by NFL teams in 2022.
According to Fox Sports, Wilson is under the impression Harbaugh is interested in doing what he can to pick up where he left off. He joked the Chargers could use all of their draft picks on former Wolverines before issuing a slightly more realistic prediction, saying, “I wouldn’t be surprised if like all nine of us end up going. But seriously, like at least five or six. I think he’s going to take a lot of us.”
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.