After losing its 2024 defensive starter, reserve and coach, the University of Michigan football team added some reinforcements late Thursday night.
Former Albany cornerback Amir Hill of the Football Championship Subdivision has committed to the Wolverines. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Hill, a 2023 All-American, recorded 63 tackles, 15 interceptions and five catches in his lone season with New York. Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Richmond at the FCS level.
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Hill's first season with Richmond was a four-game campaign in the spring of 2021. He then started 11 games in the fall season, finishing with 13 pass breakups and one interception. Hill then played in nine games in 2022, recording 28 tackles, including 1 1/2 tackles for loss, a half-sack, a forced fumble, and one interception.
UM's defense has appeared to be thinned over the past four months with the departure of two of last year's starters, Mike Sainristil (second round) and Josh Wallace (UDFA), to the pros, but the real blow to the defense was the decision of two promising players, Keon Sabu and DJ Waller Jr., to transfer to Alabama and Kentucky, respectively.
Additionally, third-year starting safety Rod Moore suffered a serious knee injury that required surgery in early spring. It is not yet clear whether he will be able to return this season. Hill is part of the depth needed by new defensive backs coach Lamar Morgan, who left to join Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh as the replacement for Steve Clinkscale.
