Yahoo Sports Every Michigan football player invited to the 2023 NFL scouting combine
College football has been over for a month and the NFL will be over once Sunday comes and goes.
That means people will either shift their attention toward the next college football season or, if you like the NFL, the upcoming NFL draft.
Once the Super Bowl is played, the next big event on the calendar is the NFL scouting combine held in Indianapolis. The combine runs from Feb. 28 through March 6.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced it had invited 319 players to the combine. Nine Michigan football players were invited, and each hopes to flash and impress NFL scouts.
The Wolverines were tied with the third-most combine invitees. Alabama led all schools with 13 players being invited.
Here are the nine Wolverines invited to the NFL scouting combine.
Ronnie Bell
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• Two-time All-Big Ten honoree (third team, coaches and media in 2022; honorable mention, media in 2019)
• Voted a captain by his teammates (2021)
• Five-year letterman (2018-19-20-21-22)
• Recipient of the 2018 Rookie of the Year Award (Offense) and 2019, ’22 Offensive Skill Player of the Year awards
• Has appeared in 47 games in his career with 31 starts at wide receiver
Ryan Hayes
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• Two-time All-Big Ten selection (second team, coaches, third team, media in 2022; second team, coaches, honorable mention, media in 2021)
• Part of two Joe Moore Award-winning offensive lines (2021-22), the first back-to-back winners in history
• Four-year letterman (2019-20-21-22)
• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2019-21-22)
• Has appeared in 40 games in his career with 29 starting assignments at left tackle
Jake Moody
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• Consensus All-American (2021)
• Second-team All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, AP, AFCA (2022)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District 5 (2021)
• Four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2019, ’20, ’21, ’22)
• Two-time Bakken-Andersen Big Ten Kicker of the Year (2021-22), the first winner in Michigan history
• Two-time All-Big Ten selection (consensus first team, 2022; first team, coaches; third team, media, 2021)
• U-M’s first-ever Lou Groza Award winner (2021); a two-time finalist (2022)
• William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist (2022)
• In his first game place kicking (Indiana, Nov. 17, 2018), set Michigan records for single-game kick scoring (19 points) and most made field goals in a game (6)
• Set single-season program records for made field goals (29), PATs (60), points scored (147), and 40-plus yard field goals in a season (10); all set in 2022
• Owns career program records for points (355), field goals (69), 40-plus yard field goals (17) and tied-most 50-plus yard field goals (4), PAT percentage (100)
• Three-time Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week: twice outright (Oct. 11, 2021, Nebraska; Oct. 17, 2022, Penn State) and once as a co-recipient (Nov. 19, 2018, Indiana)
• Three-time Lou Groza Award Star of the Week following his 15-point games at Michigan State (Nov. 1, 2021) and against Penn State (Oct. 15, 2022), and a 17-point game against Michigan State (2022)
• Recipient of the 2018 Team Rookie of the Year Award (Special Teams), and the 2021, ’22 Specialist of the Year Awards
• Appeared in 60 games as the team’s kickoff specialist, handling field goal and PAT duties in 40
• Five-year letterman (2018-19-20-21-22)
Mike Morris
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• Second-team All-American by the FWAA, AFCA (2022)
• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2020, ’21, ’22)
• All-Big Ten selection (consensus first team, 2022)
• Smith-Brown Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year (2022)
• Recipient of the Richard Katcher Award (2022)
• Three-time letterman (2020-21-22)
• Appeared in 27 games with 16 starts during his career
Olu Oluwatimi
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• Rimington Award Winner (2022)
• Outland Trophy Winner (2022), the first in Michigan history
• Consensus All-American (2022) with first-team honors by four of five organizations
• All-Big Ten selection (first team, coaches, second team, media)
• Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winner (2022)
• Named the team’s Hugh H. Rader Award (2022)
• Made 14 career starts at center
• Part of a Joe Moore Award-winning offensive line (2022)
• Semifinalist, Rotary Lombardi Award
• One-year letterman (2022)
Brad Robbins
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• Three-time All-Big Ten honoree (honorable mention, coaches, 2017, 2020-21; media, 2020-21)
• The program’s only two-time recipient of the Robert P. Ufer Bequest (2021, ’22)
• Finished his career with the No. 2 career punting average (42.0 yards per attempt) and No. 2 single-season average (46.33) in program history; fifth in total punt yards (7,698)
• Has appeared in 44 career games during his career
• Five-year letterman (2017, ’19-20-21-22)
• Two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2021, ’22)
• Missed the entire 2018 season and the start of 2019 due to an injury
Luke Schoonmaker
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• Two-time All-Big Ten selection (third team, coaches, honorable mention, media in 2022; honorable mention, coaches and media in 2021)
• Shared Most Improved Player (Offense) honors in 2021
• Five-year letterman (2018-19-20-21-22)
• Has appeared in 43 games with 20 starts, playing special teams only in six games
Mazi Smith
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• Two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2020-21)
• Two-time All-Big Ten selection (consensus first team, 2022; honorable mention, coaches and media, 2021)
• Named the team’s Richard Katcher Award winner (2021) and Defensive Player of the Year (2022)
• Four-time letterwinner (2019-20-21-22)
• Appeared in 35 games during his career with 28 starts
DJ Turner
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• Two-time All-Big Ten selection (second team coaches; third team media, 2022; honorable mention, coaches and media, 2021)
• Shared Most Improved Player (Defense) honors and Defensive Skill Player of the Year honors in 2021
• Appeared in 36 games including 28 in the secondary with 22 starts
• Four-year letterman (2019-20-21-22)
