On NFL cut-down day, a former Michigan special teams star got a shot of good news.

Longsnapper William Wagner, who signed with Cincinnati in May after going undrafted this year, was informed Tuesday that he made the team’s 53-man roster.

Bengals special teams coordinator Darrin Simmons delivered the news to Wagner after he finished a workout in the team’s facility, a scene that was captured on video and later published on social media.

“It’s an opportunity that you earned,” Simmons told Wagner, a six-year player at Michigan. “Now it’s up to you to show that you belong here. You did a good job in the preseason, I think you showed that you can protect.

“That was my biggest question: Can you protect and can you anchor?”

Wagner appeared in 53 games as the Wolverines’ longsnapper from 2020

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