Commitment Impact: Ted Hammond To Michigan

Dedication No. 5 in Michigan’s 2024 class is Cincinnati St. Xavier defensive lineman Ted Hammond. The stout lineman pulled the set off for the Wolverines after visiting this previous weekend for a recruiting occasion. Check out how he matches in at U-M as a participant, member of the 2024 class and future piece of Michigan’s roster.

The Participant

Hammond at present checks in at 6-5, 258 kilos and appears the a part of a flexible defensive lineman. Clearly 258 kilos is not big, however he’s only a junior and will definitely bulk up extra earlier than arriving in Ann Arbor. In highschool, he performs nostril deal with, defensive finish and even rushes the passer from a two-point stance generally. He does a bit of little bit of all the things now, together with play tight finish, so it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see how he continues to develop over the following 12 months and a half.

Hammond reveals some indicators of being a plus athlete however he wins principally due to his motor, means to make use of leverage and angles. He is clearly obtained good, not elite measurement, however that enables him to play with a stage of quickness that may be robust to take care of from a robust, inside defensive lineman. Hammond completed his junior season with 41 tackles, together with seven for loss, and 4 sacks.

The Class

Hammond is the second defensive lineman in Michigan’s 2024 class as he joins Wallingford (Conn.) Choate Rosemary Corridor’s Manuel Beigel, who’s initially from Germany. Beigel, a 6-5, 282-pounder, is now prepping within the states as he continues to get acclimated to American soccer. Like Hammond, Beigel has some place versatility and clearly quite a lot of growing left to do as a foreign-born participant nonetheless studying the sport.

Michigan has 30+ affords out to defensive linemen within the 2024 class and is not near executed at any of the positions up entrance. Atlanta Tempo Adademy’s Hevin Brown-Shuler, West Bloomfield (Mich.) Excessive’s Brandon Davis-Swain and La Grange (Ailing.) Lyons Township’s Eddie Tuerk have all been on U-M’s radar for some time and have additionally visited inside the previous month or two. They will be monitored carefully shifting ahead.

The Crew

Michigan is fairly stacked alongside the defensive position proper with some younger, proficient gamers. As a 2024 prospect, Hammond nonetheless has one other full 12 months of highschool remaining after this 12 months, which supplies him loads of time to develop and offers Michigan’s roster loads of time to evolve.

As of now, barring transfers, inside defensive linemen Rayshaun Benny, Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, Ike Iwunnah and Dominick Guidice will nonetheless be on the roster. So far as versatile, inside/EDGE combo guys are involved, Derrick Moore is the one one on the roster proper now who will nonetheless be round when Hammond arrives in Ann Arbor.

It is arduous for inside defensive linemen to play so much as true freshmen, however we noticed that occur with Mason Graham in 2022. It will be so much to anticipate from Hammond, who will probably be behind Graham, Grant and sure Benny from day one, however you by no means know. Graham himself stunned everybody in 12 months one however by the autumn of 2024, Graham and Grant will probably be true juniors with a bunch of expertise and Benny will probably be a senior in the identical boat.