Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh has seen a lot of powerful defensive linemen play for the team and go on to have dominant careers in the NFL, with significant recent players like Rashan Gary, Aidan Hutchinson and Mazi Smith.
None of those guys had gained praise from their head coach the way Harbaugh spoke of sophomores Kenneth Grant and Mason Graham. At Big Ten Media Day in 2022, Harbaugh enthusiastically said he had two freshmen who were “gifts from the football gods.” Those two freshmen were Grant and Graham.
“Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant — gifts from the football gods,” Graham recollected Harbaugh telling donors at an NIL event with the Wolverine boot company.