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T E A M S T A T S

 

MICH
OPP

Points/Game
52.0
13.8

First Downs/Game
23.5
14.5

Rush Yards/Game
229.8
122.5

 Yards/Rush
5.4
3.4

 Rushing TDs
15
2

Passing Yards/Game
238.0
147.2

 Completion %
64.3%
49.1%

 Yards/Pass
7.6
5.6

 Passing TDs
9
4

 Interceptions
1
3

Offensive Plays/Game
74.0
62.5

Total Offense
467.8
269.8

3rd-down Conversions
54.4%
12.0%

4th-down Conversions
62.5%
45.5%

Sacks/Game
4.3
1.3

Kick return average
15.7
20.0

Punt return average
23.6
17.5

Punting average
41.5
38.0

Field Goals-Attempts
4-6
2-5

Fumbles/Lost
4/1
7/3

Penalty Yards/Game
43.5
48.8

Time of Poss
32:26
27:34

I N D I V I D U A L S

PASSING

Player
Cmp
Att
Yds
TD
INT

Speight
72
114
875
9
1

O’Korn
5
8
32
0
0

Morris
4
4
45
0
0

TOTALS
81
126
952
9
1

RUSHING

Player
Att
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD

Smith, D.
39
259
6.6
42
2

Evans
29
213
7.3
43
3

Isaac
33
150
4.5
25
2

Higdon
22
145
6.6
40
3

McDoom
7
56
8.0
19
0

Chesson
5
36
7.2
17
1

Peppers
2
24
12.0
17
0

Davis
2
17
8.5
10
0

Hill
9
17
1.9
4
4

Morris
1
14
14.0
14
0

Crawford
1
11
11.0
11
0

O’Korn
3
7
2.3
3
0

Hirsch
1
2
2.0
2
0

Beneducci
1
1
1.0
1
0

Hewlett
1
-1
-1.0
0
0

TEAM
3
-4
-1.3
0
0

Allen
1
-11
-11.0
0
0

Speight
10
-17
-1.7
9
0

TOTALS
170
919
5.4
43
15

RECEIVING

Player
No.
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD

Darboh
17
248
14.6
45
4

Butt
19
234
12.3
25
3

Chesson
8
145
18.1
35
0

Perry
4
88
22.0
54
1

Hill
6
47
7.8
15
0

Poggi
4
28
7.0
15
0

Ways
1
22
22.0
22
0

Isaac
1
21
21.0
21
0

McDoom
3
20
6.7
8
0

Evans
3
19
6.3
14
0

Crawford
1
18
18.0
18
0

Smith, D.
7
16
2.3
9
0

Hirsch
1
15
15.0
15
0

Jocz
1
12
12.0
12
0

McKeon
2
10
5.0
5
0

Bunting
2
6
3.0
4
0

Asiasi
1
3
3.0
3
1

TOTALS
81
952
11.8
54
9

 

PUNT RETURNS

Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD

Peppers
10
227
22.7
54
1

Jocz
1
27
27.0
0
0

Perry
0
6
--
6
1

TOTALS
11
260
23.6
54
2

INTERCEPTION RETURNS

Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD

Stribling
1
51
51.0
51
1

Hill, D.
1
27
27.0
27
1

McCray
1
22
22.0
22
0

TOTALS
3
100
33.3
51
2

FUMBLE RETURNS

Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD

Hill, L.
1
9
9.0
9
0

TOTALS
1
9
9.0
9
0

KICKOFF RETURNS

Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD

Peppers
2
81
40.5
55
0

Henderson
2
28
14.0
15
0

Lewis
2
21
10.5
18
0

Hudson
1
6
6.0
6
0

Hill, K.
2
5
2.5
5
0

TOTALS
9
141
15.7
55
0

KICKOFFS

Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
TB

Allen
29
1872
64.6
17

Foug
7
403
57.6
2

TOTALS
20
1243
62.2
10

PUNTING

Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
Lg

Allen
11
456
41.5
55

TOTALS
11
456
41.5
55

FIELD GOALS

Player
FG
Pct.
1-19 20-29 30-3940-49 50+ Lg

Allen
4-6 66.7% 0-0
1-1
3-4
0-1 0-0 39

LEADING TACKLERS

Player
Solo Ast
Tot
TFL
SK
PBU

Gedeon
12
26
38
6.0
2.0
-

Peppers
22
11
33
9.5
2.5
-

Thomas
15
10
25
-
-
1

McCray
12
10
22
4.5
2.5
3

Winovich
5
14
19
4.0
2.0
-

Gary
6
9
15
4.5
1.0
-

Glasgow, R.
-
13
13
1.0
0.5
-

Godin
5
7
12
1.5
1.0
-

Hill, D.
6
6
12
2.0
-
1

Wormley
6
6
12
3.5
3.0
-

Hurst
5
6
11
4.0
2.0
-

Clark
6
4
10
-
-
3

Stribling
3
5
8
0.5
-
3

Kinnel
4
3
7
-
-
-

Charlton
1
4
5
2.0
1.5
-

Watson
2
3
5
-
-
-

Bush
2
3
5
-
-
-

Glasgow, J.
3
1
4
-
-
-

Hudson
2
2
4
-
-
-

Uche
2
2
4
-
-
-

Marshall
1
2
3
-
-
-

Wroblewski
-
3
3
-
-
-

TOTALS
129
154 283 45.0 18.0
13

2016 SCHEDULE

HAWAII (1-3)

W, 63-3 (1-0)

UCF (2-2)
COLORADO (3-1)
PENN ST. (2-2)
WISCONSIN (4-0)

3:30, Michigan Stadium, ABC

at RUTGERS (2-2)

7 or 8 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.

ILLINOIS (1-2)

3:30 p.m., Michigan Stadium

at MICH. ST. (2-1)

East Lansing, Mich.

MARYLAND (3-0)

Michigan Stadium

at IOWA (3-1)

8 p.m., Iowa City, Iowa

INDIANA (2-1)

Michigan Stadium

at OHIO ST. (3-0)

Columbus, Ohio

9/3
9/10
9/17
9/24
10/1
10/8
10/22
10/29
11/5
11/12
11/19
11/26

W, 51-14 (2-0) W, 45-28 (3-0) W, 49-10 (4-0)

Lewis battling through rust from injury

Jourdan Lewis is 21 years old 

and listed at 5 feet 11 inches, 
186 pounds. He’s one of college 
football’s top athletes at one of 
its most challenging positions 
— cornerback — and is in what 
most people would call the best 
shape of their lives.

And 
yet, 
speaking 
to 
a 

group of reporters Tuesday, he 
sounded like a man starting to 
feel his age.

“As a freshman, I felt like I 

never had to pay attention to 
anything like (taking care of 
my body),” Lewis said. “Just go 
out there and play. But now I 
have to go out there and warm 
up 30 minutes before I get out 
there. … I can’t eat everything 
now, my metabolism is slowing 
down, I’ve been getting a little 
bigger.”

Lewis made his return to 

action Saturday against Penn 
State after missing the season’s 
first three games with nagging 
injuries that trace back to his 
core.

He wasn’t pleased with his 

performance — which saw him 
record a tackle for loss and 
break up a pass — and admitted 
some rust. He was unabashed in 
conceding he held a Penn State 
receiver, due in part to that rust. 
And he especially wasn’t shy in 
saying that he felt his soreness 
after the game.

“My first game back, it really 

hurt,” Lewis said. “I have to be 
honest. I haven’t been through 
anything physically (challenging) 
like that in a while.”

Lewis is lucky, though, to get 

that rust out in a 39-point win. 
His next game may not allow for 
him to be so cavalier in taking or 
admitting penalties.

Michigan has blown through 

its 
first 
four 
opponents, 

winning by a combined margin 
of 153 points. But when No. 
8 
Wisconsin 

comes to town, 
the Wolverines 
will be facing 
a 
team 
that 

is 
capable 
of 

burning them on 
both sides of the 
ball.

With redshirt 

freshman 
quarterback Alex Hornibrook 
now under center, the Badgers 
spread 
the 
ball 
around 
in 

their 30-6 win over then-No. 
8 Michigan State on Saturday. 
Five different receivers had 

at 
least 
two 

catches, 
led 

by junior Jazz 
Peavy, who had 
four receptions 
for 96 yards.

Peavy, listed 

at 6-foot-1, is one 
of many Badger 
receivers 
who 

will 
pose 
a 

physical 
challenge 
for 
the 

Michigan secondary. And with 
the Wolverines losing their 

tallest 
cornerback, 
Jeremy 

Clark, for the season with an 
ACL injury, Lewis will need to 
be at the top of his game in a 
hurry.

“We’re really preparing for 

those receivers,” Lewis said. 
“Those guys are big and physical 
and fast.”

While Lewis says he normally 

likes to lead by example — and 
All-American play is not a bad 
example to set — his injury 
forced him to become more 
vocal early in the season.

“If you can’t go out there and 

play, you have to impact the 

team in different ways,” Lewis 
said. “So I definitely was more 
vocal in trying to inspire those 
guys to play at their best.”

Now Lewis is back on the 

field, and he can go back to 
letting his play do the talking. 
He was not satisfied with his 
first game back, saying he wants 
to be more technically sound 
going forward.

But Lewis’s most important 

plays are no doubt ahead of him.

“I feel like I’m at full speed,” 

Lewis said. “Does it hurt a little 
bit? Yeah. But you have to play 
through that a little bit.”

Wisconsin native Bredeson ready for Badgers

March 1, 2014, is a day 

that Wisconsin native Ben 
Bredeson will never forget. It 
was the day that the football 
team he rooted for as a child, 
the 
Badgers, 
gave 
him 
a 

scholarship to play football. 

But a lot can change in two 

years. Instead of suiting up in 
Wisconsin red and white, he’s 
playing for the No. 4 Michigan 
football team as a left guard. 
There are many factors that 
went into his choice to play 
for the Wolverines, with their 
brand new coaching staff being 
the main determinant. 

So far, the decision is paying 

off. 

Most 
true 
freshmen 

offensive linemen don’t get 
the opportunity to play, but 
Bredeson has appeared in every 
game this season as relief for 
an experienced line. This week, 
he will prepare for the eighth-
ranked Badgers in the first top-
10 matchup of his career. 

“I’ve been getting texts since 

the beginning of the year from 
people who are excited about 
the game,” Bredeson said. “Not 
anyone who’s on the team, but 
just friends from back home. 
The majority — I think like a 
third of my graduating class — 
all went to Madison, so I have 
a lot of friends from the school, 
and I’m pretty excited about it.”

Bredeson has a lot of friends 

and family coming out to Ann 
Arbor for the weekend, and 
though they may have always 
rooted for Wisconsin growing 
up in Hartland, he’s giving 
them a reason to question their 
fandom — if friends of the 
Bredeson family didn’t already 
have enough. 

Ben’s brother, Jack, is a 

sophomore right-handed pitcher 
for the Michigan baseball team. 

“I was going to come here 

anyway,” Ben said. “But (having 
Jack on campus) has helped a 
lot. He’s given me the lay of the 
land and it’s nice to have a close 
family member here, so when 
you just need someone from 
home, you can call him.”

The brothers played hockey 

and football together often, but 
Ben never dabbled in baseball. 
He says he’s “very awful, 
terrible” at his brother’s game, 
and on top of that, he’s afraid of 
the ball.

He grew up playing hockey 

instead, 
starting 
the 
game 

when he was three years old. 
He says it was his first love, 
and though he decided to shift 
his focus to football once high 
school started, the skating 
skills have transferred over to 
the gridiron. 

“Hockey 
is 
all 
footwork 

there,” Bredeson said. “It’s not 
really the same style, but just 
being light on your feet and 
being able to change direction 
quick. Being able to read plays 
before it happens and read 
body language and then just 
reacting to it. It translates to the 
offensive line world pretty well 
— surprisingly well.”

Despite the move from high 

school to college, which included 
a move from left tackle to guard, 
Bredeson seems to have a handle 
on his role on the football team. 
Having his brother on campus 
definitely helps, but the support 
from his teammates has been 
incalculable. 

Fifth-year senior Ben Braden 

has taken Bredeson under his 
wing. Though they’re battling 
for the same job, Bredeson is not 
surprised at all about Braden’s 

willingness to help. 

“(Braden has helped) a lot 

more than you can imagine,” 
Bredeson said. “He and I roomed 
together all camp and we room 
together 
in 

the 
hotel 
for 

game 
nights. 

He’s 
helped 

me with plays, 
protections, 
pre-game tests, 
life — basically 
everything. He’s 
helped me a ton.

“He has gone 

far out of his 
way to help me, 
mentally and physically, with 
the game.”

But Bredeson isn’t just being 

helped out by the older players 
on the team. 

He remembers jumping off 

the walls of his high school on 
National Signing Day when 

he 
found 
out 

that 
freshman 

defensive 
end 

Rashan 
Gary 

also committed 
to 
Michigan. 

That was before 
Bredeson 
even 

really 
knew 

Gary. Now, the 
two 
practice 

together 
all 

week.

“Rashan and I are great 

friends,” Bredeson said. “Just 
to watch him compete, it’s so 

much fun to watch. He has that 
intensity and that fire in him 
every single play, and you can 
see it. It’s real visible, and you 
can really appreciate it going 
against him.”

Though 
many 
Wolverines 

maintain that they’re preparing 
for Wisconsin the same way they 
prepared for earlier opponents 
this season, the game will be a 
little different for Bredeson. 

“I’m from the state and I grew 

up watching them all the time, 
but it’s just going to be a huge 
game for us,” Bredeson said. 
“It’s a big top-10 matchup and 
they’ve been coming out strong 
at the beginning of the year, and 
so have we, so it’s gonna be a 
heck of a game on Saturday.”

True freshman offensive lineman to match up Saturday against the team he grew up rooting for

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Freshman offensive lineman Ben Bredeson (74) has appeared in every game this season as a substitute at left guard.

KELLY HALL

Daily Sports Editor

“I have a lot of 
friends from 
(Wisconsin), 
and I’m pretty 
excited about it.”

All-American cornerback says he’s back to full speed but having to take better care of his body

SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily

Senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis is back in the starting lineup after missing the first three games with injuries, but he’s still working to regain his rhythm.

“My first game 
back, it really 
hurt. I have to 

be honest.”

MAX BULTMAN

Managing Sports Editor

