Story byVon LozonTue, January 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM UTC·2 min readKyle Whittingham and the rest of the new Michigan Football staff have been hard at work the last few weeks retaining players, recruiting players in the transfer portal, and establishing relationships with coaches and players in high school. The Michigan Wolverines are past portal season and have done a great job keeping most of the high-quality players from the previous regime in Ann Arbor; they have also brought in several key players — like edge rusher John Henry Daley, cornerback Smith Snowden, and wide receivers JJ Buchanan and Jaime Ffrench, to name a few — through the portal. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNext up for Whittingham and company is developing a plan for the 2027 recruiting class. They have offered a number of prospects over the last week or so, with one of the latest being a name you may be familiar with: 2027 three-star athlete Diesel Dart. The younger brother of New York Giants starting quarterback Jaxson Dart, Diesel is a solid player in his own right. At 6-foot-1 and 175 pounds, he stars for Corner Canyon High School in Draper, Utah.