- Position
- RB
- Number
- #5
- Pieces here
- 21
On the record
Called Shots →Michigan's rushing yards per attempt across the 2026 regular season is lower than its 2025 regular-season figure of 5.5 (2,558 yards on 464 attempts in twelve games).
Savion Hiter finishes the 2026 regular season with more rushing attempts than Jordan Marshall.
Michigan's non-quarterback rushers average 4.0 or more yards per carry in Michigan's September 19, 2026 game against UTEP.
Michigan's quarterbacks complete NO pass that travels 20 or more yards in the air against Indiana on October 24, 2026 at Michigan Stadium. Scored off Michigan Athletics' official play-by-play for that game: for every completed pass, subtract the line of scrimmage from the 'caught at' yard line the stat crew prints; a completion of 20 or more yards by that subtraction loses this row, and a game with none wins it. Plays wiped out by penalty (NO PLAY) do not count. Air yards, not yards gained.
Savion Hiter carries more times than any other Michigan running back against Michigan State on November 7, 2026 at Michigan Stadium. Scored off the rushing table in Michigan Athletics' official box score: Hiter's attempts must exceed those of every other player listed at running back on Michigan's roster (Jordan Marshall, Bryson Kuzdzal and any other). A tie for the most loses the row. Quarterback carries do not count. If Hiter does not play, the row loses; a postponed or cancelled game voids it.
Michigan averages under 4.0 yards a carry on its first-down rushing plays against Michigan State on November 7, 2026 at Michigan Stadium, regulation only. Scored from Michigan Athletics' official play-by-play: every Michigan rushing play on first down in quarters one through four, including quarterback runs and rushing touchdowns, excluding kneel-downs, plays nullified by penalty (NO PLAY), and botched-exchange plays logged as a team fumble. Total yards divided by those carries must be below 4.00. A postponed or cancelled game voids the row.
Michigan beats Michigan State by 10 or more points on November 7, 2026 at Michigan Stadium. Scored off the final score in Michigan Athletics' official box score: a Michigan win by 10 points or more, overtime included, wins this row; a Michigan win by 9 or fewer, or a Michigan State win, loses it. A postponed or cancelled game voids the row.
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Michigan completed nothing that travelled more than 11 yards in the air, and won
Michigan beat Penn State 21-18 without completing a pass that travelled more than 11 yards past the line of scrimmage. By the catch spots recorded in Michigan Athletics' official play-by-play, its 10 completions covered 41 yards in the air and 49 after the catch, and the four throws that went 25 yards or more downfield were two Tommy Carr incompletions and both Bryce Underwood interceptions. Across six games, Michigan has completed five passes of 20 or more air yards, all against Western Michigan and Iowa. Penn State's deep passing game was one receiver: the stat crew marked five of Rocco Becht's 44 throws as deep, all five went to Chase Sowell, and three were caught for 76 yards. In the run game, the second half's 14 runs up the middle were Michigan's season habit producing 10.1 yards a carry instead of the 4.0 it had averaged there in the first five games, and the ball moved to Savion Hiter, who carried twice before halftime and nine times after it. PFF's grades, cited as rankings only, had Avery Gach first in run blocking among the five linemen who started at the conventional spots, Manuel Beigel's run-blocking grade highest of any Michigan lineman, Rod Moore Jr. the highest-graded Michigan defender despite leaving in the third quarter, and Jyaire Hill last in coverage among the eight defensive backs who made a tackle. Kyle Whittingham said Monday he will not name the Indiana starter.
Michigan Named Its Two Running Backs In May And Fall Camp Has Not Moved Them
Michigan's running back room is the one place on this roster where fall camp is a formality. Whittingham named Jordan Marshall the starter and promised eighteen-year-old Savion Hiter carries in game one, both in early May. The man whose carries those are, Justice Haynes, averaged 7.1 yards a carry for Michigan last season and is now at Georgia Tech. The game log says the staff can probably live with that, and the reason is volume rather than talent.