
No player listed on Michigan's 2026 roster as DL, DT, NT or DE is selected in the first three rounds of the 2027 NFL Draft.
The Associated Press preseason Top 25, voted by 69 media members and released Monday, puts Michigan 16th with 718 points and Utah 21st with 304. In last season's final AP poll the order was reversed and wider: Utah 14th on an 11-2 record, Michigan 21st on a 9-4 one. Kyle Whittingham left the first program for the second in December after 21 seasons, taking his offensive coordinator and, in John Henry Daley, the only Michigan player on either of AP's preseason All-America teams, an edge rusher who ruptured an Achilles last November and has been on a camp snap count since.

Michigan announced 4 captains and a 12-man leadership council on Monday night, and its February release had already announced 4 spring captains and an 11-man spring council with a note that the real vote would come in fall camp. The captains are identical. The council moved by 5 names: linebacker Troy Bowles, receiver JJ Buchanan and defensive end John Henry Daley came on, safety Mason Curtis and tight end Zack Marshall came off. With 18 days to Western Michigan, the tight ends went from 1 name to 0 of 8, the linebackers went from 0 to 1 of 14, and the 10 specialists have now been passed over twice.
