Using all the pertinent data, observations, and even historical context at our disposal, we give you a sneak peek at the Michigan storylines you should follow in the 2024 NFL Draft.
The NFL’s 32 teams will alternately make 257 decisions over the course of three days and seven rounds of the draft on Thursday evening in Detroit. Not only will this year’s draft conveniently located only down I-94, but the Michigan football team is anticipated to be well-represented at the event, as it has been for the past few years. More than a dozen Wolverines anticipate hearing their names called at the NFL Draft Combine after the Wolverines saw a record-breaking 18 of their 2023 players invited.
When we broke out Georgia’s 2022 record of 15 players selected in a single draft in May, we were among the first publications to report that the Wolverines will have an opportunity to surpass it. Jim Harbaugh was singing the same song to everybody who would listen by the summer.
“I anticipate that 20 players will be selected in the upcoming NFL Draft,” Harbaugh stated to The Athletic. We smash that (draft) record, I wager. That year, Georgia had fifteen.”
It won’t be 20 because a few players choose to stay at Michigan for an additional season, including Rod Moore, Makari Paige, Josaiah Stewart, and Donovan Edwards. However, the Wolverines saw 18 guys invited to the NFL Draft Combine after defeating a team loaded with veterans, which gives some serious credence to the notion that Michigan will select 16 or more players this weekend.
