Michigan offensive lineman Zak Zinter admits to having experienced some nervousness when he was called on last season to take over at right guard as a freshman.
That was before the third game, but Zinter said he was instilled with confidence. Although he was an early enrollee who didn’t have the advantage of participating in spring practice, canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 6-foot-6, 334-pound Zinter now knows how valuable that playing time was last fall and how important this spring has been.
“Getting in the games was huge,” Zinter recently told reporters. “Just that experience is something you can’t really create other than playing in the game itself.