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In new role, Partridge takes UM safeties to 'speed school'

Bob Wojnowski, Matt Charboneau and Angelique S. Chengelis talk spring football for Michigan and Michigan State. Detroit News

Ann Arbor — When Michigan assistant coach Chris Partridge changed coaching assignments this offseason from linebackers to safeties, he submerged himself in the process, learning as much as possible by studying film and consulting with coaches from smaller schools to the NFL.

While it hasn’t been an enormous adjustment, Partridge had to approach safeties from a different perspective looking at spacing and route combinations versus linebacker-focused protections and containing the run game.