Flexibility a focus for Michigan recruiting

Published Jun. 11, 2015 7:10 p.m. ET

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What is Jim Harbaugh looking for on the recruiting trail? That's easy to say if hard to identify.

"I think they're going for the best athletes on the board," Scout.com midwest recruiting analyst Allen Trieu told MLive.com. "That's something that's worked for him going back to when he was at Stanford. The way recruiting's going now, these kids are multi-sport athletes a lot of the time. They play both ways, too."

And so whether or not a player is rated as a linebacker, a running back, an offensive lineman or a wide receiver, he could find himself playing somewehre else when he gets to Ann Arbor.

"Rather than try to pigeonhole a kid into one spot, you can take a kid with a lot of athletic ability first, then get him on campus and figure out where he fits next," Trieu said. "Then you have options."

For a program coming off a losing season and more than a decade removed from its last Big Ten title, options are good.

(H/T MLive.com)