Welcome to today’s Recruiting Roundup! We’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so let’s not waste any time today and jump right into the latest Michigan football recruiting news.
Top QB target locks in official visit
According to On3’s Ethan McDowell ($), Michigan’s top target at the quarterback position in the 2027 class, four-star Kamden Lopati, has scheduled his official visit to Ann Arbor for the weekend of June 19. That will follow a three-day unofficial visit he has on the docket coming up from April 3-5.
Lopati — who remains committed
to Illinois — has been the new coaching staff’s top quarterback target from the very beginning. Even before four-star quarterback Peter Bourque decommitted, offensive coordinator Jason Beck and quarterbacks coach Koy Detmer Jr. traveled to Utah to visit with Lopati. And very shortly after Bourque decommitted, Lopati announced on social media he had been officially been offered by the Wolverines.
This is pretty significant news considering that weekend is set to be “Victors Weekend” for the program. In case you’re new to Michigan recruiting or unfamiliar, Victors Weekend is the biggest official visit weekend of the year for Michigan, as the Wolverines bring in as many top targets as possible for that weekend.
As we brought you on Monday, 2027 four-star quarterback Dane Weber is set to take his official visit to Ann Arbor the weekend before Lopati’s official visit. It will be very interesting to see what the Wolverines do if Weber wants to commit during that visit. Would they take his commitment knowing that Lopati is coming in the very next weekend? If I had to guess, I’d say probably not, but you can never fully predict this kind of stuff.
Needless to say, keep your social media notifications turned on over those couple weekends in June. Things could get really interesting for Michigan recruiting during that time period.
Recent visit ‘definitely helped’ Michigan
Continuing our theme of players being committed elsewhere, 2027 four-star tight end Colt Lumpris has been an Alabama commitment since December, but he is still very open to other schools. He took an unofficial visit to Michigan last week, and as he told On3’s McDowell ($), the visit did a lot of good for the Wolverines.
“It definitely helped them, I would say,” Lumpris said. “ … “It was definitely fun getting to see how things are run now as opposed to before a little bit. But yeah, just overall a good time. I got to connect with a lot of coaches. I got to go into the whole offensive meeting this morning to say what’s up to all the coaches, and then also the defensive side, so I met pretty much every single coach on the team.”
Lumpris was able to connect with tight ends coach Freddie Whittingham and assistant tight ends coach Ali’i Niumatalolo.
“They care about me as a person,” Lumpris said. “It’s not only about football. It doesn’t always have to be strictly business. You can trust them off the field, which translates on, and how, they’re just there for you, also to develop you, which is something to look for in a school.”
Lumpris has official visits scheduled to Alabama, Texas A&M and Penn State. He also wants to take one to Michigan, but that hasn’t been locked in just yet. He also said he’d be open to coming back to Michigan this fall for a game day visit.
Michigan still pursuing SMU commit
Yet another player committed to a different school, 2027 three-star defensive lineman Amari Vickerson has been committed to SMU the last couple months, but the Wolverines aren’t letting up their pursuit of the 6-foot-3.5, 310-pounder from Houston, Texas. Assistant defensive line coach David Denham has been recruiting him hard, and the duo of him and new defensive tackles coach Larry Black is appealing to Vickerson.
“They’ve been locked in for over a decade, he said, so that relationship and chemistry with them is going to be really good if I end up going there,” Vickerson told On3’s McDowell ($). “But I feel like, the more and more I talk to them, I kind of see that love and that care and that they want me and stuff, but I’ve just got to get a relationship with everybody at Michigan.”
Michigan State and Texas are two other schools that remain in contact with him, but he remains firmly committed to the Mustangs. However, he did say that he plans on taking an unofficial visit to Ann Arbor either this or next month.
And if all goes well with that visit?
“Possibly an OV, but we’ll have to see,” Vickerson said.
Quick Hitters
- Michigan recently extended an offer to 2027 three-star defensive back Maxwell Miles. He is set to announce his commitment today.
