Sherrone Moore
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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2024ReliaQuest BowlW 19-13
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
3-1 against his rivals.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
Defining games during this era
From our list of the 50 most defining games of the Playoff era, ranked by how much each game mattered, not by date.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Campbell.
1,531 run and pass snaps at Michigan, 2024–2025, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Building the roster
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Michigan class of his own finished #6 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2025 roster arrived on his watch — 75 of 119 players. The other 44 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 20% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2024–2025Counting players who have since left: 20% of the 83 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 7 of 51 signees (14%) across his 2024–2025 tenure, drawn from 22 states in all. Next: FL (5).
27% of his signees come from MI and its 3 border states (OH 5, IN 2).
Off this map: 3 signees to the west (CA, NV, others).
- median hometown distance
- 433 mi
- within 100 mi
- 18%
- within 500 mi
- 55%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 16%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. Most were someone else’s recruits: 12 arrived under Jim Harbaugh; 1 he brought in himself. 3 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R2.12 | Derrick Moore | Defensive Edge |  Detroit Lions | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2026 | R2.27 | Marlin Klein | Tight End |  Houston Texans | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2026 | R3.28 | Jaishawn Barham | Defensive Edge |  Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2026 | R4.18 | Jimmy Rolder | Linebacker | Detroit Lions | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2026 | R5.19 | Max Bredeson | Tight End |  Minnesota Vikings | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2026 | R7.34 | Rayshaun Benny | Defensive Tackle |  Baltimore Ravens | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R1.05 | Mason Graham | Defensive Tackle |  Cleveland Browns | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R1.10 | Colston Loveland | Tight End |  Chicago Bears | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | R1.13 | Kenneth Grant | Defensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R2.15 | Will Johnson | Cornerback |  Arizona Cardinals | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R3.26 | Josaiah Stewart | Defensive Edge |  Los Angeles Rams | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R6.12 | Kalel Mullings | Running Back |  Tennessee Titans | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2025 | R6.15 | Myles Hinton | Offensive Tackle |  Philadelphia Eagles | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse
Followed Jim Harbaugh (2015–2023) · succeeded by Kyle Whittingham (2026–now).
| Season | 2024 | 2025 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 8-5 | 9-3 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Kirk Campbell | Chip Lindsey / Steve Casula | |
| DC | Don Martindale | Don Martindale | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 22 | 50 | |
| Defense | 89 | 50 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 34.7 | 36.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 24.0 | 24.2 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 22.2 | 19.4 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Typical size for position, once adjusted for position mix.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
2 player-seasons honored (All-America / national award): Mason Graham (2024), Dominic Zvada (2024)
AI Narratives — “Michigan's Offseason Overhaul” and 4 more on the team page.