The Michigan Wolverines and Jim Harbaugh, have reached out to Ty Simpson, an eighth-grader at Martin Middle School in Tennessee.
The 6’1″170-pound eighth grade QB received his first Division 1 scholarship offer recently, from the Wolverines for the class of 2022. Harbaugh became interested in the young athlete after videos of Simpson surfaced online, as he went through some football related practice drills. Simpson has already visited Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan.
#pocketmovment @tysimpson510151 pic.twitter.com/FrkPOgZ3M6
— Jason Simpson (@Coach_JSimpson) March 3, 2018
Blessed to receive my first offer from the University of Michigan #gowolverines #2022 pic.twitter.com/nNKDLZWL92
— Ty Simpson (@ty_simpson06) March 6, 2018
Ty Simpson’s father Jason is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and he has developed many relationships with college coaches over the years, and Harbaugh is one of them. In an interview with the Tennessee newspaper The Jackson Sun, Ty’s father had some things to say about the University of Michigan and coach Harbaugh.
“The tradition of that program and coach Harbaugh and his work with quarterbacks and him as a player, it was a pretty neat deal,” Jason said. “I think Ty knows that it doesn’t help you on Friday nights. Now, you gotta go out and be ready to compete and make some great memories on the high school field.”
Ty Simpson never thought football would be his focus entering high school:
“At first, I thought I was going to be a baseball player,” Ty said. “I didn’t really think I was built (for) football like I was. But then, me and my dad were throwing one day and he was like ‘Ty, I really think you need to start working with my coaches more just to see where it goes.’”
The future sounds bright for the youngster out of Tennessee, and the University of Michigan and Jim Harbaugh seem to notice this fact. Hopefully, his high school career starts and ends well, he lives up to the big expectations put on him, and he is wearing the maize and blue up in Ann Arbor Michigan in 2022.
