Michigan has a nose for finding dominant, physical, veteran centers in the NCAA transfer portal.
It started with Olusegun Oluwatimi last season, the transfer center from the University of Virginia who won the Rimington and Outland Trophy with the Wolverines in 2022. He was then drafted in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks.
Now, it’s Stanford transfer Drake Nugent.
Nugent, similar to Oluwatimi, dominated at his previous program, starting all 12 games for the Cardinal in 2021 and 2022. He was named All-Pac-12 honorable mention by the league’s coaches as a junior and senior, and only gave up four sacks in each of those seasons.