5-star offensive deal with Ty Haywood — the highest remaining uncommitted prospect within the 2025 class — signed with Michigan on Wednesday morning, capping a torrid end to the recruiting cycle for coach Sherrone Moore and the Wolverines within the early hours of nationwide signing day.
Haywood, a one-time Alabama commit, is ESPN’s No. 16 total recruit and third-ranked offensive deal with prospect within the 2025 class. The 6-foot-5, 285-pound lineman selected to not signal through the early signing interval in December and decommitted from the Crimson Tide final month earlier than he formally dedicated to Michigan on Wednesday in a ceremony at Ryan Excessive Faculty in Denton, Texas, amid heavy curiosity from Florida State and Texas Tech.
Haywood stands because the second-highest-ranked member within the Wolverines’ 2025 class, trailing solely No. 1 total prospect and five-star quarterback Bryce Underwood amongst recruits set to affix Michigan for the 2025 season. With Haywood within the fold, the Wolverines maintain signatures from 11 ESPN 300 recruits within the newest cycle, together with eight from the highest 100 in a highschool recruiting class that started Wednesday ranked ninth nationally in ESPN’s class rankings.
“All of us have the identical mindset of successful,” Haywood instructed ESPN. “We will go in and do what we’re alleged to do. However we’re additionally going to have enjoyable with this course of and this subsequent chapter of life. I am able to go dominate, win video games and make it a enjoyable time in our lives.”
Closing out with Haywood’s dedication, Michigan has executed one of many strongest recruiting runs throughout the nation in 2025 within the remaining levels of Moore’s first cycle in command of this system, surging late despite the Wolverines’ 8-5 end to the 2024 season.
Michigan held pledges from simply 4 eventual blue-chip signees when four-star offensive deal with Andrew Babalola (No. 28 total) dedicated to this system on Oct. 21, 2024, kicking off a sequence of six top-100 pledges who joined the Wolverines’ 2025 class within the seven weeks earlier than the early signing interval started Dec. 4.
Underwood’s flip from LSU to Michigan was essentially the most important domino to fall over that span. However the Wolverines additionally bolstered their defensive class with a sequence of late additions, pulling in prime 100 recruits Shamari Earls (No. 68 total), Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng (No. 76), Nathaniel Marshall (No. 77) and Jordan Younger (No. 96) all after Nov. 1.
In Haywood, Michigan has its second five-star signee and one other cornerstone in Moore’s inaugural recruiting class.
An imposing deal with with elite size, Haywood initially dedicated to Alabama over Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Florida State in July. The chance to play within the SEC, Haywood instructed ESPN, was a dream, and he would have been the second-ranked member of coach Kalen DeBoer’s debut class if he had in the end landed with the Crimson Tide. But Haywood by no means signed, reopening his recruitment within the new yr.
“Life would not all the time occur the best way you need it to occur,” he stated. “You discover higher choices in life. I hoped to discover my choices extra within the recruiting course of.”
Michigan, Florida State and Texas Tech rapidly emerged final month as the first contenders to land Haywood. The Wolverines and Seminoles made house visits to Haywood in January earlier than Haywood stated his recruitment swung on an official go to to Michigan on the weekend of Jan. 17, the place his consolation on campus, in addition to with Moore and offensive line coach Grant Newsome sealed his dedication.
“They made positive my mother was OK,” he stated. “They made positive my brother who got here with me had enjoyable. While you decide a spot, it isn’t just for you, it is for your loved ones. That is a part of what did it for me.
“Coach Moore is a former offensive lineman and Coach Newsome is a good man, too,” Haywood continued. “These guys perceive what it takes to arrange on daily basis, exercise and win video games. They know what it takes.”
Haywood and Babalola — ESPN’s No. 8 offensive deal with — now symbolize Michigan’s prime offensive line signings within the ESPN recruiting rankings period, which dates to 2006. Between them, this system has not solely a pair of blue-chip linemen to guard Underwood, however elite bookends to an distinctive recruiting end for Moore and the Wolverines within the 2025 class.