Just one day after getting 4-star athlete Te’Cory Couch to flip his commitment from Tennessee, Michigan landed another pledge from the Class of 2019 with 3-star rising offensive lineman Jack Stewart (New Canaan, CT).
Stewart made his announcement Monday evening via Twitter:
Committed to the University of Michigan. Thank you to all the coaches that extended offers. #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/OfP36YAr9C
— Jack Stewart (@jackstewartnc74) April 16, 2018
Stewart (6-5, 280) is rated as the No. 7 high school recruit from the state of Connecticut and is a top-100 offensive lineman from the Class of 2019, per the 247Sports Composite rankings. Stewart is a prospect whose recruitment has seen a sudden uptick, with numerous new scholarship offers coming in the past few weeks. He looks to be a late riser which is not uncommon for recruits in his neck of the woods where there is much less coverage and a lack of large camps.
His commitment to Michigan comes after he made a series of unofficial visits to multiple schools down in Texas over the weekend. The Wolverines formally offered Stewart a scholarship earlier in April. All 15 of his offers have come since January and among the schools that Michigan beat out for his services were Big Ten foes Indiana, Maryland, and Rutgers.
Stewart becomes the first commit recruited by new Michigan offensive line coach Ed Warinner, who was hired back in January to serve in an offensive analyst role but then was promoted in early March. Warinner was the OL coach for Minnesota last season and held the same title in five of his six seasons prior at Ohio State.
2019 MICHIGAN CLASS COUNTER: 9
The addition of Jack Stewart now gives Michigan a total of nine pledges from the Class of 2019. It’s a crop of recruits that now ranks 1st in the Big Ten and 4th in the country. Stewart is already the third offensive lineman commit in this group, joining 4-star offensive guard Nolan Rumler (Akron, OH) and 4-star offensive tackle Trente Jones (Loganville, GA).
This also marks the fifth recruit that Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has nabbed from the state of Connecticut, in what will be his fifth recruiting class in 2019. All five of his pledges from the Constitution State have come since last year’s signing period. It started when Harbaugh nabbed three of the state’s top four recruits from the Class of 2017, led by now redshirt freshman wideout Tarik Black. This year’s signing class for Michigan featured 3-star tight end, Luke Schoonmaker.
