The sole returning starter from the group, senior edge rusher Derrick Moore, will probably see the most double teams of any player on the Michigan football team’s front seven. Moore is still expected to lead the team in sacks anyway. That expectation was birthed after a season in which Moore excelled alongside eventual NFL draft picks Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant and Josaiah Stewart.

Naturally, the promotion of those three to the next level requires Moore to become the Wolverines’ star player on the D-line. But also, it in turn requires Michigan’s younger edge rushers to become productive role players, like Moore was a season ago.

And one of those guys, junior Cameron Brandt, is already drawing comparisons to Moore this offseason — mainly by Moore himself.

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