Everything's Just Fine With Arrington

Fourth-year junior WR Adrian Arrington was considered by Michigan fans as The Marquise Walker to Mario Manningham's David Terrell. By that I mean he was slightly less talented than Mario but still an all-Big 10 caliber WR who has very good size (6'3" and 190 lbs.), decent speed, good hands, and runs good routs. Also, while he may not be the break away TD threat that Mario is, Adrian is definitely still a long TD threat and he proved that last year (2007 #s = 40 catches for 544 yards and 8 touchdowns). On most downs however, Adrian is the talented "possession" receiver in one of America's best receiving duos. Furthermore, Adrian is a high quality well rounded receiver so if Manningham ever gets hurt Adrian can step into the #1 receiver role without wolverine fans getting very worried. This will definitely be evidenced next year if and when Mario leaves early for the NFL. Remember, David Terrell had the most receiving yards when he and Marquise were juniors (1,130 yrds) but then Terrell went pro and Walker stayed and put up even more yards (1,143 yrds) during his senior campaign. Coming out of high school Adrian was a solid 4 star top 100 recruit.

However, over the winter Adrian received "strike two" for misbehavior and he was suspended from the team for spring ball. He had to be at Michigan stadium every morning 7 days a week at 6:00 a.m.to run the stairs. Now though, Adrian has been cleared to work out with the team throughout the summer (also, he has been at every recent team function such as Lloyd Carr's wash) and he will be fully back with the team for the fall and the '07 season. It looks like he will suffer no further punishment and he will be in the starting line-up for game one. This is provided he keeps up the good behavior and doesn't get "strike three". If that were to happen...

Additionally, Adrian has been a team leader and very focused since the unfortuante incident and as a result of his punishment it is being said that he is in as good of shape as anyone on the team. So maybe this story will have a happy ending.