All week long, the Michigan football team knew that its tight ends had to be more involved in the passing game. Given the talent in the room and the unproductive past few weeks, a breakout performance was bound to take place.

So it wasn’t much of a shock that a tight end led the Wolverines in receiving yards Saturday. The surprising part was that it wasn’t senior Marlin Klein nor sophomore Hogan Hansen but Zack Marshall, the third-string sophomore tight end who caught five passes for 72 yards and a touchdown in Michigan’s decisive win over Washington.

Before the game — but after the Wolverines reworked their offensive diet to allow for more tight end targets — Klein was ruled out. Hansen, absent from the injury report, watched the game out of uniform from the sidelines.

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