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Zak Zinter, OG, Michigan
Selected: Round 3, Pick 21, Overall Pick 85 by Browns
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Name: Zak Zinter (+) 11-25-23 Knee/Leg INJ
College: Michigan
Number: 65
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 6-6 Weight: 309
Position: Pos2:
Class/Draft Year: Sr/2024
40 Low: 5.10 40 Time: 5.18 40 High: 5.27
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Data Scout Notes: X-4-7 INJ Prone/Could Return for 2024 As well...**Returning for 2023 2023: NAC...(+) Coming off 11-25-23 Knee INJ/1stC...2022: 1stC...POutland...2021: HMC...(+) Coming off 2021 Wrist INJ...2020: NAC
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 6057
Weight: 309
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Dates: 03/22/24
Hand: 09 3/8 Arm: 33 1/2
Wingspan: 81 1/8
Height: 6057
Weight: 309
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Zak Zinter, Michigan, Player News
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2023 ALL-BIG TEN FIRST TEAM: OG Zak Zinter, Michigan,...Zinter (guard) and Drake Nugent (center) were named first-team All-Big Ten honorees by both the coaches and media. Henderson (tackle) and Loveland (tight end) were both picked as first-team honorees by the coaches and were second-team selections by the media. Together, the offensive line permits 1.17 sacks per game (13th), the lowest rate in the Big Ten, along with its top-five national rate in TFLs allowed. They block for the nation's top scorer i n Corum and support a run game that averages 4.4 team-wide yards per carry. - Michigan Football
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024  OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
News Source: Michigan Football
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There's good, and then there's an embarrassment-of-riches good. That's the state of the Michigan offensive line heading into the upcoming season. Michigan has won the Joe Moore Award in back-to-back seasons, getting a boost at center last season with tra nsfer Olu Oluwatimi, who went on to win the Rimington Trophy as the nation's best center and the Outland, given to the nation's top interior lineman. The group helped the Wolverines average 238.9 rushing yards last season, ranking No. 5 nationally. Sherr one Moore, Michigan's offensive coordinator, who also coaches the offensive line, has built depth, adding three linemen from the transfer portal last December, and experience. Last season, because of injuries, there were five different starting-line comb inations, with nine players making starts. Gone are Oluwatimi and left tackle Ryan Hayes, both participating in this week's NFL combine, but the transfer additions are LaDarius Henderson, Drake Nugent and Myles Hinton.Among the experienced players returning are left guard Trevor Keegan and right guard Zak Zinter. Both assessed heading to the NFL and opted for another season at Michigan. Spring practice, which began a week ago and is paused while the university is on spring break, will be useful f or getting some of the younger players, including Gio El-Hadi and Jeff Persi, who made starts last season, more practice reps. Also back are starters Karsen Barnhart and Trente Jones, who competed at right tackle. Henderson won't be able to practice with the team until the preseason, while he finishes his degree work at Arizona State, and Nugent and Hinton are missing spring practice while working through post-season surgeries. Henderson and Nugent are targeting starting spots in the fall. - Detroit New s
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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Michigan football is set to get back another key cog up front on offense. Starting left guard Trevor Keegan, a big part of the Wolverines' Joe Moore Award-winning offensive line last season, announced Thursday plans to return in 2023. In a post on social media, the 6-foot-6, 305-pound lineman said he is "thrilled to get back to work with my teammates and get rolling." "Making it to the NFL has been a dream of mine ever since I picked up a football," Keegan wrote. "With a lot of thought and talking to th ose closest to me, there is more I want to achieve personally and collectively as a team."Keegan had been on the fence about leaving; he was a senior in 2022 and just as well declared for the NFL draft like his fellow linemen Ryan Hayes and Oluseg un Oluwatimi. Yet, he still has two years of eligibility left after redshirting his freshman season in 2019 and playing through the pandemic-shortened year of 2020. Keegan rose up the depth chart and earned a starting role in 2021, just as Michigan’s o ffensive line became a bedrock of the offense. He was a shoe-in to start at left guard this past year, and did so in 11 of the Wolverines’ 14 games, missing three due to injury. - Michigan Live
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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2022 ALL-BIG TEN FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM (COACHES): OG Zak Zinter, Michigan,...Olu Oluwatimi, Zak Zinter (12 starts) and Trevor Keegan (nine starts) each picked up first-team honors in recognition while tackles Ryan Hayes (second team, coaches; third team, m edia) and Karsen Barnhart (honorable mention, coaches and media) also earned league accolades. In the passing game, the line has given up only 13 sacks across 12 games (1.08 per game). - Michigan Football
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: G Zak Zinter, Michigan,...All-Big Ten selection (second team, media, honorable mention, coaches; 2021)...Appeared in 13 games with 12 starts at right guard to earn his second varsity letter...Part of the unit that was honored with the Joe Moore Award, given to the top offensive line in the nation. - Michigan Football
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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The Michigan offensive line won the Joe Moore Award as the top line in the country last season, but they lost starting center Andrew Vastardis and right tackle Andrew Stueber. On paper, with the addition of grad transfer Olu Oluwatimi, one of three final ists last year for the Rimington Award, given to the nation's top center, and with Trente Jones and Karsen Barnhart competing at right tackle, this group has big plans. "I do believe this line could easily be better than last year," Zinter said. "Our goa l in the room is we're gonna be the first O line to repeat as Joe Moore Award winners. We have potential and can be better than last year. Olu is a great addition. I love V (Vastardis). V was a dog, a warrior, super smart, (but) Olu is a little younger and has the athletic ability. He's a freak. Trente or Karsen are going to have big shoes to fill, and they'll both do really well."To have candidates to fill those shoes in the future, Zinter said he jumped at the chance when DreamUp Sports approa ched him with an NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) deal to host a one-day camp for kids from kindergarten through ninth grades. "I love working with kids," Zinter said. "It's fun being around them and seeing the next generation have fun out there and make f ootball fun for them. I wish I would have had it as a kid. I'm glad to do it for them." - Detroit News
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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Michigan's football team closed spring practice with three starters determined along its offensive line. The Wolverines now enter the summer looking for two more - as competition brews to figure out who will protect the quarterback this fall. At least, t hat's the word from head coach Jim Harbaugh, who appeared on the "In the Trenches" podcast last week. "There's just a battle going on to get to the five best," Harbaugh told host Jon Jansen. "And that's going to continue post-spring. It's going on now, i t's going to continue through the summer and also into fall camp." Here's what Michigan knows: Fifth-year senior Andrew Stueber, junior Ryan Hayes and sophomore Zak Zinter have all showed enough (and have the experience) to lock down starting roles Hayes at tackle, Harbaugh says, while Zinter and Stueber are flexible."Very good players," Harbaugh said to describe all three. "They put an exclamation mark on that in spring. I'd call them three solid starters in the top five." Stueber spent most of the spring lining up at right tackle, a position he's familiar with having played it before. The 6-foot-6, 339-pound Connecticut native can also line up at guard. Meanwhile, Harbaugh feels that the 6-foot-6, 334-pound Zinter can fill in at either guard o r center. Zinter started four games at right guard in 2020, suggesting that might be his preferred spot. "There gives you all the flexibility you need," Harbaugh said. "To get you to the best five, it could be a guard, it could be a tackle." - Ann Arbor News
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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Michigan offensive lineman Zak Zinter admits to having experienced some nervousness when he was called on last season to take over at right guard as a freshman. That was before the third game, but Zinter said he was instilled with confidence. Although he was an early enrollee who didn't have the advantage of participating in spring practice, canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 6-foot-6, 334-pound Zinter now knows how valuable that playing time was last fall and how important this spring has b een."Getting in the games was huge," Zinter recently told reporters. "Just that experience is something you can't really create other than playing in the game itself. The experience was incredible, and I think I've come a very long way from a year ago when I stepped on campus as an early enrollee." He said he's using his hands more and staying low, and while the depth chart is in pencil now, Zinter appears to the starter at right guard next to tackle Andrew Stueber. Stueber had been playing at ri ght guard last fall but moved to right tackle when Jalen Mayfield suffered a high ankle sprain. Zinter and Stueber developed a rhythm playing side-by-side those final games. "He has such a high ceiling," Mayfield said recently of Zinter. "He's very versa tile, a very strong kid. He's very athletic, as well. I think he's gonna be a big part of what they have next year." - Detroit News
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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Michigan's offensive line went through trials and tribulations last fall while trying to adjust to changes at quarterbacks and injuries up and down the front five. The latter meant more opportunities for younger players, such as true freshman Zak Zinter, who earned snaps in all six games. But when right tackle Jalen Mayfield went down due to injury, forcing the Wolverines to move veteran Andrew Stueber over to his natural position, Zinter was plugged in to start at guard. "Huge," Zinter said Thursday to describe the opportunity. "That experience is something you can't really create, other than playing in a game itself. The experience was incredible. I think I've come a very long way from a year ago when I stepped on campus as an early enrollee." Now, a year later, the 6-foot-6, 334-pound Zinter is in the mix for a permanent role along the offensive line. He's taking snaps at right guard again this spring - this time with a new offensive line coach, Sherrone Moore - and figures to be in the playi ng rotation, at the very least, this fall. Stueber is back at right tackle, while Michigan returns its starters at left tackle (Ryan Hayes), left guard (Chuck Filiaga) and center (Andrew Vastardis). - Ann Arbor News
(DS#9 OG) Sr/2024 OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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