Overview
- Michigan stacked two safety commitments in two days as three-star Maxwell Miles pledged a day after four-star Darrell Mattison, bringing the 2027 class to five recruits.
- Mattison, a Chicago Morgan Park standout, chose the Wolverines over Ole Miss, Penn State, and Indiana and is rated a four-star with a top-25 safety ranking by 247Sports.
- Miles, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound Las Vegas recruit who transferred from Arizona, committed soon after a campus visit and posted 77 tackles, 10 pass breakups, and eight interceptions in 2025.
- The class now includes Mattison, Miles, four-star edge Recarder Kitchen, and three-star linemen Tristan Dare and Louis Esposito, with rankings around No. 24–25 nationally after the latest pledges.
- Outlets frame the surge as Whittingham’s first high-school milestone at Michigan, crediting safeties coach Tyler Stockton’s role and noting pursuit of a 2027 quarterback target, Illinois commit Kamden Lopati, ahead of spring and summer visits.