4 months ago
- Wolverines
- Updated: Jan. 03, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
- Published: Jan. 03, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
Kyle Whittingham’s unit astatine Michigan is nearing completion.
The Wolverines are expected to prosecute BYU cornerbacks coach and protect walk crippled coordinator Jernaro Gilford, per a study from CBS Sports.
Gilford helped caller Michigan protect coordinator Jay Hill decorativeness pinch a top-20 scoring defense astatine BYU past season.
Gilford, a erstwhile cornerback astatine BYU from 1999-03, has spent nan past 10 years pinch nan Cougars arsenic cornerbacks coach, adding protect passing crippled coordinator to his title successful 2025.
This season, BYU vanished 50th successful FBS successful passing yards allowed (209.7) and eighth successful interceptions (17).
In 2024, nan Cougars vanished 11-2 and forced 29 turnovers – nan third-most successful nan country. Twelve players recorded astatine slightest 1 interception, nan astir successful FBS.
Prior to BYU, Gilford coached nan secondary astatine Southern Utah (2014-15) and was a postgraduate adjunct astatine Whitter College from 2012-13.
With nan summation of Gilford, Michigan’s lone on-field coaching vacancy remaining is overseeing nan linebackers. Along pinch Gilford and Hill connected nan protect broadside of nan ball, Whittingham hired Utah’s Lewis Powell arsenic protect ends coach and retained Lou Esposito to coach protect line.
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Ryan Zuke is simply a sports newsman for MLive.com and covers University of Michigan athletics. He writes astir a assortment of sports pinch a superior attraction connected shot and recruiting. With nan occurrence of galore Wolverines...
