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Tight end Blake Hammond shrugged off the mention of his relatively modest statistics Saturday.

Tight end Matt Stevens hasn't done anything yet this season to make his name jump off the scouting report at opposing defenses.

If ever there was a season for pigskin fans in Michigan to follow the WMU football team, this is the year.

Western Michigan University football coach Bill Cubit says of all the positions in football , offensive line is perhaps the most difficult for a freshman to crack the lineup.

If anyone thought the road to redemption would be easy for the University of Michigan football team this season, you had better take another look at the schedule.

The draft was a real killer this year. A 60-year-old coach sits in a secluded room, surrounded only by the intense and focused faces of his two closest advisers.

GREEN BAY -- Mosinee High School graduate Kole Heckendorf said he heard from five teams during the seventh round of last weekend's draft, but he chose to sign with the Green Bay Packers, the team he followed as a kid 100 miles down Wisconsin 29 in Mosinee.

The Green Bay Packers have signed at least 10 free agents since the NFL Draft ended on Sunday.

No tempering his enthusiasm < by BOB McGINN, Staff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Green Bay - Not only did wide receiver Jamarko Simmons play alongside Greg Jennings at Western Michigan , he broke three of his records.

On the biggest day of his sporting life, Louis Delmas has his sights set on ... fishing? Even though he's a near-lock to have his name called during the first two rounds of Saturday's NFL Draft, Delmas would like to leave the chaos behind and simply enjoy a day on the water in south Florida.

Connor Barwin really considered the NFL for the first time four years ago. He was participating in the Michigan high school all-star game after an all-state senior year at U-D Jesuit.