{"id":620214,"date":"2026-02-27T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/620214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:48:11","slug":"recruiting-roundup-another-new-qb-target-emerges-for-michigan-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/620214\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Roundup: Another new QB target emerges for Michigan Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Whittingham and the new Michigan football coaching staff are off to a blazing start recruiting the 2027 class. The staff seems to be making solid progress, but the quarterback position is now a big question mark after Peter Bourque\u2019s decommitment a couple weeks back. We share an update on that and discuss more in today\u2019s Recruiting Roundup.<\/p>\n

Another QB to watch for Michigan<\/p>\n

Michigan needs a new 2027 quarterback following Bourque\u2019s decision to open up his recruitment, and after we\u2019ve seen reports about four-star Illinois commit Kamden Lopati and another four-star in Dane Weber, there is a new name to keep an eye on \u2014 three-star Thaddeus Thatcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thatcher \u2014 who had a stellar junior year with 3,230 total yards, 36 total touchdowns and just five interceptions \u2014 was originally committed to Utah. But when Whittingham departed for Ann Arbor, he decided to open his recruitment back up. He was recruited by Koy Detmer at Utah, and now Thatcher is hearing from him again.<\/p>\n

Thatcher is also working on getting a visit to Ann Arbor scheduled.<\/p>\n

Four-star OL locks in spring visit<\/p>\n

A lot of recruits are making their plans to get out to Ann Arbor in the spring, and 2027 four-star offensive lineman Lincoln Mageo<\/a> recently finalized his trip. He will be taking a visit on April 18 for the Spring Game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited,\u201d Mageo told The Michigan Insider ($)<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to meeting coach (Jim) Harding and the staff. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing coach Harding coach up the OL. I think it\u2019s cool that the strength coaches are poly with coach Elisaia and coach Salt. I\u2019m looking forward to meeting them, too. Coach Harding has always had a group of linemen that\u2019s always been aggressive when he was at Utah and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing him bring that same style to Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mageo isn\u2019t sure what his top schools will be yet, but expect Michigan to be in the running.<\/p>\n

\u201dI haven\u2019t narrowed my top 6-8 schools yet, but they\u2019re definitely making that list,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Whittingham and the new Michigan football coaching staff are off to a blazing start recruiting the 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":620215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,6654,6655,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-620214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting","10":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting-news","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\/116143384490371461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620214","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=620214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}