Michigan football's transfer portal additions, including Justice Haynes, Tré Williams, and Damon Payne, are expected to make ...

One of the more under-the-radar additions Michigan made in the transfer portal this winter was defensive back T.J. Metcalf, ...

Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator Wink Martindale opened up about the team’s early training camp, which began with ...

"I think he’s going to be really good," Martindale said of Metcalf. "He is versatile. We’ll probably play more personnels, ...

Mixing and matching on the back end continues in camp, leaving some key decisions to come for assistant LaMar Morgan.

But it's an incoming transfer who could end up being Michigan's best defender in 2025. Head coach Sherrone Moore recently singled out defensive back transfer TJ Metcalf as a potential breakout star.

"TJ, has a lot of versatility as a defensive back," Pinson Valley head coach and former NFL safety Sam Shade told 247Sports of his game ahead of Metcalf's junior season.

The Big Ten always has a lot of strong defenses, and the conference's secondary units are in good shape ahead of the 2025 season.