Ex-Michigan WR inks deal with New York Giants as UDFA

Add one other to the record of former Michigan gamers to signal with an NFL staff as an undrafted free agent.

Receiver Daylen Baldwin is the sixth, reaching a cope with the New York Giants on Sunday.

The 6-foot-2, 219-pound Southfield native completed sixth on the Wolverines with 265 receiving yards on 17 receptions in 2021 and didn’t obtain an invitation to the NFL Scouting Mix, however he possesses a prototypical construct for an NFL receiver.

After starting his school profession at Morgan State, he transferred to Jackson State and performed one season for NFL Corridor of Famer Deion Sanders. Baldwin had 27 receptions for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns in six video games earlier than coming into the NCAA switch portal as soon as once more.

He acquired a number of affords from Energy 5 packages, together with Ohio State, however selected to play for Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines in 2021.

Baldwin, who ran a 4.65-second 40-yard sprint on the Wolverines’ professional day in March, completed fourth amongst Michigan receivers in offensive snaps in 2021 and noticed his enjoying time improve towards the top of the season. He performed not less than 35 snaps in every of the staff’s final 5 video games however caught simply 5 passes in that span, together with 4 towards Maryland in Week 12.

The Wolverines had 5 gamers chosen within the 2022 NFL draft: defensive finish Aidan Hutchinson (No. 2 general, Detroit Lions), defensive again Daxton Hill (No. 31, Cincinnati Bengals), outdoors linebacker David Ojabo (No. 45, Baltimore Ravens), working again Hassan Haskins (No. 131, Tennessee Titans) and offensive lineman Andrew Stueber (No. 245, New England Patriots).

Baldwin joins 5 different Michigan gamers to seek out an NFL house after the draft: defensive sort out Christopher Hinton (Giants), cornerback Vincent Grey (New Orleans Saints), defensive sort out Donovan Jeter (Pittsburgh Steelers), security Brad Hawkins (Atlanta Falcons) and linebacker Josh Ross (Ravens).

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