Michigan football has formally hired Greg Scruggs as an assistant coach, The Michigan Insider has learned. The former defensive line coach with the Wisconsin…
After helping the Bearcats to the College Football Playoff in 2021, Scruggs was hired by the New York Jets for the 2022 season. He reunited with Fickell at Wisconsin last year.
Scruggs’ resume is shorter that Elston’s but shows promise. At Cincinnati, he recruited and developed standout tackle Dontay Corleone Jr., as well as NFL Draft picks Curtis Brooks and Myjai Sanders. In Madison, he was the primary recruiter for two four-star defensive line prospects, Ernest Willor Jr. and Dillan Johnson, and helped the Badgers retain highly coveted 2022 recruit Jamel Howard.
When I say I ain’t playing, I ain’t playing,” Scruggs said last winter of his recruiting strategy. “I build off of relationships. I recruit everybody off of a relationship. I don’t care how good of a player you are. It doesn’t matter to me what the stars say. When it comes to getting a defensive lineman in this program, it’s going to be having a guy that wants to play for a coach that cares for them, that’s going to develop them as a person and as a student-athlete, a defensive lineman that knows they’re going to play for a coach that they can call 20 years from now.
Between Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant and Rayshaun Benny, the Wolverines have a chance to be one of the nation’s premier defensive tackle rooms, and edge rushers Josaiah Stewart and Derrick Moore makes the defensive line as good as any in the country — assuming no attrition in the spring Transfer Portal window.
