Lawrenceville (NJ) The Lawrenceville School tight end Colt Lumpris has flipped his commitment from Alabama to Michigan. Florida, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Penn State, Tennessee, and others had offered Lumpris.
Lumpris is listed at 6'6" and 249 lbs. As a junior in 2025, he caught 44 passes for 812 yards and 8 touchdowns.
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ESPN: 4-star, 80 grade, #9 TE-H, #216 overall
Rivals: 4-star, 90 grade, #11 TE, #277 overall
247 Sports: 3-star, 89 grade, #16 TE
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Lumpris had been committed to the Crimson Tide since December, but tight ends coach (and former Michigan quarterback) Nick Sheridan left to become Michigan State's offensive coordinator. Alabama's new tight ends coach, Richard Owens, is a former NFL tight end, but most of his coaching career had been spent as an offensive line coach. Lumpris visited Michigan this spring and is scheduled to take an official to Ann Arbor in June.
Interestingly, Michigan's lone other player from Lawrenceville was former Michigan offensive line coach Grant Newsome, who is now an assistant offensive line coach for the New York Giants.
Lumpris is a big, athletic tight end who plays a flex position in high school. It's not often you see a tight end going in orbit motion and catching a bubble screen, but Lumpris is an exception. He runs well and has good acceleration for a player his size, and it's tough to stop him with a head full of steam. He changes direction pretty well for being 6'6" - thus the bubble screen ability - and he does a good job of adjusting to the ball in the air. As one would expect, he's able to go up and catch the ball over the heads of smaller defensive backs.
Lumpris will not be as big of a speed-size mismatch in college, and I think he will have to play more as an in-line tight end at the next level. Unfortunately, he plays almost entirely as a flex tight end in high school, so putting his hand on the ground and blocking a defensive end may be a big adjustment. This is also not a huge surprise, but he could improve at adjusting to low throws; there are times where even routine catches below chest level seem to come with some awkwardness.
Overall, Lumpris is a very interesting prospect who reminds me of A.J. Barner (currently with the Seahawks) as a receiver. Barner was an excellent in-line blocker, though, so that part will have to be developed. Tight ends coach Freddie Whittingham quietly did a pretty good job of developing tight ends at Utah, so I imagine that played into Lumpris's commitment and it should continue with the Wolverines.
Michigan now has fifteen commitments in the class of 2027. Tight end is a pretty key recruiting need in the class because the Wolverines only retained the commitment of Mason Bonner in 2026 after Matt Ludwig changed his commitment to Texas Tech.
Whitt sent the house!
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