- Position
- OL
- Number
- #52
- Pieces here
- 11
On the record
Called Shots →Between September 6 and the kickoff of Michigan's September 12 game against Oklahoma, Kyle Whittingham states on the record that at least one named Michigan player will not play in that game, or is out, unavailable or doubtful for it. No conference availability report is required for this game.
Evan Link, Nathan Efobi and Brady Norton all appear in Michigan's September 12, 2026 game against Oklahoma, as listed in the official participation report.
Written about him
Penn State allowed six 20-yard runs in a night, and Michigan has one all season
Michigan (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) hosts Penn State (3-3, 0-3) at Michigan Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Eastern on CBS. DraftKings has Michigan by 6.5 with a total of 42.5 at 8:13 a.m. Eastern, which splits to about Michigan 24.5, Penn State 18. Michigan has one run of 20 yards or more in five games, Bryce Underwood's 38-yard touchdown against Oklahoma; its running backs have 111 carries and a longest of 17. Penn State allowed six runs of 20 or more to Northwestern and none to Wisconsin or USC. Rocco Becht is 59 of 102 for 646 yards in three Big Ten games, 6.3 a throw, after 11.7 against Marshall, Temple and Buffalo. Penn State lists receiver Koby Howard Out; he has 344 receiving yards, all of them in non-conference games. Michigan lists Andrew Sprague and Ace Hamilton Out and Jake Guarnera, Brady Norton, Andrew Babalola, Dom Nichols and John Henry Daley Questionable. Prediction: Michigan 20, Penn State 13.
Three of Michigan's five starting linemen are on the Penn State injury report
Michigan's initial Big Ten availability report for Saturday's game against Penn State, filed Wednesday, October 14, lists 14 players, six of them offensive linemen. Jake Guarnera, who started at center at Minnesota, and Brady Norton, another Minnesota starter, are Questionable; Nathan Efobi, a third starter, is Probable. Evan Link and Blake Frazier are not listed. Andrew Sprague is Out, the first time Michigan has opened a week with him at Out rather than Questionable, and Ace Hamilton is Out. Andrew Babalola, Out on all eight of his earlier designations this season, is Questionable. Manuel Beigel, Out on game day at Minnesota, is off the report, which makes him Available under the conference rule. In Michigan's two earlier conference weeks, ten Wednesday Questionable designations ended with three Outs on game day, all three of them offensive linemen; the six non-linemen all finished Available and the fourth lineman, Houston Ka'aha'aina-Torres, was a Game Time Decision who played. One take filed.
Michigan Opens With Two Players Out For The Year And Only One Of Them Happened In Fall Camp
Whittingham told reporters Friday that Michigan came out of fall camp with one long-term injury, freshman interior lineman Ace Hamilton. That is accurate and it is a claim about a 4-week window. Michigan will open against Western Michigan on September 5 with two players lost for the season, because junior running back Micah Ka'apana went down in the spring and was ruled out on April 9. The spring is the half of the year Whittingham ran deliberately violent, and he said so on Big Ten Network on April 16, including the sentence where he priced it: there is an element of risk. He also said the fall would be scaled back, which is exactly what he did at Utah in August 2025, when his first-team offense took thud work in the first scrimmage and the second team took every live rep.