{"id":336734,"date":"2025-12-08T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336734\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:25:05","slug":"michigan-football-updates-on-justice-haynes-ernest-hausmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336734\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan football updates on Justice Haynes, Ernest Hausmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Wolverines football<\/a> head coach Sherrone Moore<\/a> met with the media over Zoom Sunday afternoon following his team\u2019s selection for the Dec. 31 Citrus Bowl against Texas. The second-year head man provided injury updates on his two star running backs and discussed the hire of Kerry Coombs<\/a> to replace J.B. Brown<\/a> as special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n

Michigan junior running back Justice Haynes<\/a> underwent foot surgery in early November and missed the final four games of the regular season. Moore was asked if he\u2019ll be available to play against the Longhorns but didn\u2019t have a definitive answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something we\u2019ll look at and we\u2019ll see,\u201d the Michigan coach said. \u201cHis progress is going really well, so we\u2019ll get more of an answer and clarity as we go through this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 5-foot-11, 210-pound Haynes has rushed 121 times for 857 yards and 10 touchdowns this season.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Jordan Marshall<\/a> had a stellar season, too, stepping into a bigger role once Haynes went down. The 5-foot-11, 216-pound Cincinnati native put up 932 yards and 10 scores on 150 rush attempts. He suffered a shoulder injury Nov. 15 at Northwestern, missed the following game against Maryland and was limited in the regular-season finale versus Ohio State. In the 27-9 loss to the Buckeyes, Marshall rushed 7 times for 61 yards and caught 1 pass for 10 yards. He started but left the game in the first quarter before returning but being largely ineffective in the second half.<\/p>\n

\u201cJordan will be great,\u201d Moore said of the Michigan standout\u2019s availability for the bowl game. \u201cHe fought through that. He had a shoulder that got dinged up in the game before, toughed through it, man, tried as much as he could. You wish he could\u2019ve played the whole game, right, with 6 carries for 70-something yards. But really, he pushed as much as he could, and when he couldn\u2019t, he couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019ll be ready for the bowl game, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan senior linebacker Ernest Hausmann<\/a>, one of six team captains and the team\u2019s second-leading tackler with 68 stops, was missing due to undisclosed reasons in the final two outings, at Maryland and vs. Ohio State. <\/p>\n

\u201cErnest is going through some things,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI don\u2019t really want to talk on or speak on, just things from a personal standpoint. He\u2019s also been dealing with a thumb [injury] that happened in the Northwestern game. So, just things that he\u2019s been dealing with, and we\u2019re just here to support him. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore said that Coombs will coach in the bowl game and is already at Michigan beginning his work, though his contract has yet to be finalized. Moore added that he isn\u2019t expecting any further on-field coaching staff changes ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cKerry is here, starting to work,\u201d Moore said. \u201cLegally, we\u2019ll get all of that stuff binding, as far as the contract and all that, but he\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coombs has been a football coach for 42 years and has expansive experience coaching not only special teams but other positions, and he\u2019s been renowned for his high-level recruiting chops, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe brings a lot of energy, excitement,\u201d Moore said of the hire. \u201cA veteran presence that\u2019s done it at a high level \u2014\u00a0in the NFL and college, obviously, and then in high school. I think it\u2019s awesome when you\u2019ve brought somebody in that has high school experience. He\u2019s an elite recruiter and developer of men. Very excited about the hire, and the connection has been built over time, and he\u2019s going to do a great job for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan and Texas kick off at 3 p.m. ET on Dec. 31 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media over Zoom Sunday afternoon following his team\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[42154,399,169841,71593,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-336734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ernest-hausmann-22-columbus","tag-football","tag-jordan-marshall-24-archbishop-moeller","tag-justice-haynes-23-buford","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}