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Why Michigan football is adding a 'unicorn' in four-star tight end Louis Hansen for 2021

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Needham (Mass.) St. Sebastian's School coach Dan Burke remembers the conversation well.

He was talking with a college coach who was recruiting Burke's star player, tight end Louis Hansen, when that coach used a unique word to describe Hansen.

"Unicorn."

That coach – along with many others who had offered Hansen, a four-star prospect and one of the most coveted tight ends in the 2021 class – believed Hansen was a rare prospect.