Michigan Football: 2016 Tight Ends Preview

Michigan Football has one of the best tight ends in the country to start the 2016 season. His name of course is Jake Butt, last year’s Nkwalick-Clark Tight End of the Year, All-Big Ten offensive first team, and a First-Team All-American.

After Butt—he’s pretty much as good as it gets—it’s not quite clear what Michigan football has to offer from the tight end position.

And that could be a problem.

Head coach Jim Harbaugh has a well-deserved reputation for developing quarterbacks, but what is less well known is that his record with tight ends is at least as good, if not better. Six tight ends from his Stanford days—they either played for him or were recruited by him—are still in the NFL: Jim…