Mike Martin's professional career got underway last week, and now, he's about to collect his first official paycheck. Martin, a former Michigan football defensive tackle, reached an agreement on an NFL contract with the Tennessee Titans on Wednesday, according to a release on the team's official website. The terms of ...
There are a few obvious adjustments Mike Martin is going through during his first weekend as a Tennessee Titan. The weather's warmer, the food's different and though he's surrounded by rookies, the competition is bigger, faster and stronger. But when it comes to the basics, Martin feels right at home ...
Former Michigan defensive tackle -- and now, current Tennessee Titan -- Mike Martin produced a video series last year that chronicled his senior season. Now, he's produced a follow-up that provides an intriguing look into his intimate draft party Friday night at Connor O'Neil's in Ann Arbor. Martin was selected ...
Mel Kiper Jr. says former Michigan receiver Junior Hemingway "is going to be a real good pick for the Kansas City Chiefs" and that he thought former Wolverines center David Molk would be a fifth-round pick.
After being selected in the third round of the NFL Draft, Martin embraced his mother, Theresa O'Hara. "I hugged her, and I started crying," Martin said. "I didn't think I would, but I started crying and I just didn't stop."
It has been four years since Jake Long became the second No. 1 overall NFL draft pick in Michigan football history. Since then, the Wolverines have landed only one player, Brandon Graham, in the opening round -- and that rut will not end Thursday night, when this year's draft kicks ...
Mike Martin could have declared for the NFL Draft after his junior season, and few would have blamed him. Another coaching change meant his fourth system in as many years if he stuck around. But he elected to return for his senior year. Turned out to be a sage move.
Brady Hoke was a little out of his element speaking to a group of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti businessmen Wednesday morning, and was under a tight schedule after a Tuesday practice had to be rescheduled for 5:30 a.m. that day. His speech began around 8:30 a.m. In the front row, ...
The armistice that ended World War I was reached aboard a railroad car in a French forest. Civil War peace was hashed out at a courthouse in Appomattox, Va. For one Michigan Wolverine and one Ohio State Buckeye, it was a T.G.I. Friday's in the Atlanta International Airport. Former Michigan ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Three former Michigan football players went to Indianapolis with specific goals for wooing NFL scouts at the combine. And they more or less did it. Here's a look of what Mike Martin, David Molk and Junior Hemingway did for their draft stock at the combine, with Michigan's pro ...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Mike Martin arrived at the NFL Scouting Combine hoping to shake up the perception he isn’t athletic enough to be an early-round draft pick. He had no idea it’d be his hotel doing the shaking. “The hotel we stayed at, there was a freight train that rolled right ...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Mike Martin said last month he was aiming to break the combine's bench-press record. It wasn't bombast, but rather the confidence of a player who already had posted more than 40 repetitions even before the start of his combine training. Then, after former Michigan teammate David Molk registered ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Mike Martin loves his former teammate, David Molk, like a brother. And, as tends to be the case, he won't settle for anything less than one-upping his brother. Molk, the Michigan football team's Rimington Award-winning center, blew away the field Friday during the first day of the bench ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Former Michigan defensive tackle Mike Martin is aiming to break the bench-press record at the NFL Scouting Combine, and he has at least one believer. The poor guy who got beat up by him the past two years. Iowa offensive guard Adam Gettis told AnnArbor.com on Thursday that ...
Mike Martin, David Molk and Junior Hemingway endured some dark years with the Michigan football program. Now, they're two months from the NFL, the pinnacle of their sport. Martin said he thinks every day about what it will be like to have his name called from that stage in New ...
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