2024 Big Ten preview (DB): Can the Will Johnson-led U-M secondary remain elite?

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It’s been a long road, but we’ve reached the final positional installment of our month-long Big Ten position preview. Today’s preview focuses on defensive backs, which will cover both cornerbacks and safeties. There will be one final preview element later this week to tie everything into a bow and see how everything adds up and turns into a preseason poll. If you’re a premium subscriber and you missed any of the previous installments of this series, you can access them below:

• Tuesday, July 2: QBs (read here)

• Friday, July 5: RBs (read here)

• Tuesday, July 9: WR/TEs (read here)

• Friday, July 12: OL (read here)

• Friday, July 19: DL (read here)

• Wednesday, July 24: LBs (read here)

• Today: DBs

• Later this week: Special teams/overall team wrap-ups

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Now let’s close the individual position preview series with a look at defensive backs, where Michigan boasts the conference’s top overall player in Will Johnson, but where does its collective DB/S unit rank against the rest of the conference?