{"id":495415,"date":"2026-01-06T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495415\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:59:10","slug":"michigan-football-player-announcement-tracker-those-who-will-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495415\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan football player announcement tracker: Those who will stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michigan Wolverines<\/a><\/strong> have been hard at work retaining key pieces of the roster for head coach Kyle Whittingham<\/a><\/strong>, who is putting together his first team in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n

In the current college football world, and with a coaching transition taking place at Michigan, sometimes who you keep is as important as who you bring in. The football program seems to agree, kicking off a \u201cLFG147\u201d campaign, signifying the players who will stay in Ann Arbor to start the Whittingham era.<\/p>\n

Below, we are tracking the announcements as they come in. For players transferring out of the program, be sure to bookmark our transfer portal roundup and tracker here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Announcements so far:
\u2022 OT Blake Frazier<\/a><\/strong>
\u2022 OT Andrew Babalola<\/a><\/strong>
\u2022\u00a0QB Bryce Underwood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By:Clayton Sayfie<\/a>Bryce Underwood announces return01\/05\/2026 07:10:20 PM<\/p>\n

Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood will return for his sophomore season, he announced on social media. Underwood completed 202 of his 335 pass attempts (60.3 percent) for 2,428 yards and 11 touchdowns with 9 interceptions as a freshman in 2025. He added 88 rush attempts for 392 yards and 6 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

By:Anthony Broome<\/a>Andrew Babalola locked in01\/05\/2026 04:15:34 PM<\/p>\n

At 4:58 Monday, former five-star recruit Andrew Babalola announced he would return for his second year in Ann Arbor. He missed the 2025 season with a torn ACL suffered in camp.<\/p>\n

By:Anthony Broome<\/a>Blake Frazier staying in Ann Arbor01\/05\/2026 04:13:15 PM<\/p>\n

The first payoff to the tease came at 4:22 p.m. ET on Monday in the form of offensive tackle Blake Frazier, who announced that he will return to Michigan for his redshirt sophomore season. The graphic he sent out was done by the football program, signifying that a campaign was taking place, centered around the \u201cThose Who Stay\u201d tagline.<\/p>\n

STORY: Michigan OL Blake Frazier to remain with Wolverines in 2026: \u2018Those who stay\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By:Anthony Broome<\/a>How it began01\/05\/2026 04:09:55 PM<\/p>\n

It appeared Michigan was teasing big news at 3:29 p.m. ET on Monday, tweeting out a Tom Brady gif yelling \u201cLFG\u201d with the caption \u201cBig news on the way for Team 147. LFG!!!\u201d Most took it as a tease around the status of Bryce Underwood, but it was only just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan Wolverines have been hard at work retaining key pieces of the roster for head coach Kyle…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[222881,222882,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-495415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-andrew-babalola-25-blue-valley-northwest","9":"tag-blake-frazier-24-vandegrift","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845684511322587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}