4 months ago
- Wolverines
- Published: Jan. 07, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
Jordan Marshall, Michigan football’s starring rusher successful 2025, is readying to return for different year.
The sophomore moving backmost announced Wednesday that he will suit up successful nan maize and bluish for nan 2026 season, giving nan Wolverines a boost successful their first twelvemonth nether caller coach Kyle Whittingham.
Marshall ne'er entered nan NCAA transportation portal erstwhile it opened connected Friday, moreover arsenic astir two-dozen Michigan players did. Some person retreated, including respective starting violative linemen, while backmost Bryce Underwood has publically committed to nan Wolverines for different year.
“So thankful I get nan opportunity to play for this university,” Marshall wrote connected X. “Thank you to nan fans for each nan emotion and support.”
Having Marshall backmost is captious for Michigan’s rushing attack. While he started nan play arsenic nan Wolverines’ No. 2 moving back, nan 5-foot-11, 216-pound Marshall moved into a starting domiciled aft Justice Haynes suffered a season-ending ft wounded successful an Oct. 25 triumph complete Michigan State.
In 11 games this season, Marshall rushed for 932 yards and 10 touchdowns while averaging 6.2 yards per carry. He didn’t person a 100-yard rushing crippled until Week 9, past rattled disconnected 4 consecutive games pinch triple-digit yards.
Marshall posted a career-high 185-yard, three-touchdown crippled successful a triumph complete Purdue connected Nov. 1. A week later, he ran for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns against Northwestern but near nan crippled early pinch a debilitating enarthrosis injury.
He tried playing done it successful Michigan’s regular-season finale against Ohio State, rushing 7 times for 61 yards, but sat retired nan Citrus Bowl crippled against Texas.
In nan lead up to vessel game, Marshall expressed a desire to play astatine Michigan nether Whittingham, telling reporters successful Orlando that “if everything useful out, I want to beryllium here.” He added, “I emotion this place, truly.”
A erstwhile four-star enlistee from Cincinnati, Ohio, Marshall picked Michigan complete Ohio State and Kentucky, among different schools. He committed to then-Michigan moving backs coach Mike Hart but has played nether Tony Alford nan past 2 seasons.
Alford, a erstwhile Ohio State assistant, was 1 of 3 Michigan coaches retained by Whittingham.
Michigan has already seen 2 moving backs participate nan NCAA transportation portal, freshman Jasper Parker and erstwhile walk-on Bryson Kuzdzal. Parker has already committed to Arkansas, while Kuzdzal’s early remains unclear.
The schoolhouse is besides waiting connected a determination from Haynes, who ran for 857 yards and 10 touchdowns this season. He could take to return to assemblage aliases state for nan NFL draft.
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Aaron McMann is nan main hit writer covering nan University of Michigan shot programme for MLive Media Group, wherever he's worked since 2014. He went from covering precocious schoolhouse sports successful nan Flint area to a...
