Zack Marshall

#83 · TE · Michigan6′5″ · 245 lb · Solana Beach, CA · Carlsbad

Zack Marshall is a tight end at Michigan who has not played in Michigan's 8 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.

Where Marshall comes from

  • Solana Beach, CAHometown
  • CarlsbadHigh school
  • Carlsbad is about 1,950 miles from Michigan StadiumDistance
  • Three-star, No. 546 in the 2023 class.Recruiting profile
  • On the Michigan roster since 2023Roster

Where Marshall fits

The consensus depth chart of May 27 lists Marshall at TE, No. 1.

Michigan lists 8 tight ends this season.

Michigan tight ends with a game this season

Michigan is 5-3. Next: vs Michigan State, Sat Nov 7.

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What’s being said

18 stories in the last 30 days, from 15 outlets.

Oct 6: 11Oct 7: 2Oct 12: 2Oct 19: 1Oct 20: 1Oct 24: 1W 21-18 vs Penn StateWL 6-13 vs IndianaLW 28-21 at RutgersWOct 6Nov 4Most in a day: 11
Oct 6: 11Oct 7: 2Oct 12: 2Oct 19: 1Oct 20: 1Oct 24: 1W 21-18 vs Penn StateWL 6-13 vs IndianaLW 28-21 at RutgersWOct 6Nov 4Most in a day: 11
Stories per day. W and L: the team’s results.

Michigan TE Zack Marshall apologizes after he ripped OC Jason Beck in leaked texts

Bozeman Daily Chronicle +6 Oct 6

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The story

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The offseason story in Ann Arbor is that the tight end is supposed to disappear. Marlin Klein declared for the 2026 NFL Draft, Kyle Whittingham and coordinator Jason Beck arrived preaching a spread, 11-personnel look, and the easy read was that Michigan would simply throw a wideout out there and forget the position. Instead the math pointed the other way: with only one tight end on the field most snaps, that one snap belongs to Marshall, and Maize n Brew slotted him onto its list of players "you're probably underrating right now."

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The receipts are modest but real. Pressed into duty last year largely because Hogan Hansen got hurt, Marshall caught 16 passes for 199 yards and a touchdown, a tidy 12.4 yards a grab with a long of 37 — the most production of any returning tight end on the roster. The scouting word on him is fearlessness over the middle, the slipperiness to find soft spots in zone, and yards after contact, all bolted onto the blocking that got him on the field in the first place. He has said his own focus is being a dominant run blocker, and that in Beck's offense "everyone is an option on any given play."

That is the stake the boards keep circling. Michigan returns Bryce Underwood for a Year-2 jump and a scheme designed to stretch the field; a tight end who can block on early downs and then leak out as a safety valve is exactly the connective tissue an inexperienced passer leans on. The question for 2026 isn't whether Marshall starts — he's the slight nod already — it's whether the unheralded kid can turn a 16-catch sample into a full season as the every-down tight end on a team with real ceiling.

Update (Oct. 28, 2026): Michigan lost 20-14 at Minnesota on Oct. 3 as a 6.5-point favorite and is 4-3. Our page lists no 2026 game stats for Marshall, while Hogan Hansen and Jalen Hoffman each have four games listed among Michigan's tight ends.

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Style of play

Style of play

Play style

A blocker first, a receiver second, but the second part is catching up fast. Marshall earns his snaps in the run game — that's how a lightly recruited three-star plays his way onto a Michigan two-deep — and then makes his money in the soft middle of the field, working the seams and the in-breakers where his frame and patience let him sit down in zone. There's no flash to it: he averaged 12.4 yards a catch on his 16 grabs with a long of 37, which reads less like a vertical threat and more like a chain-mover who picks up extra yards after the catch and isn't scared of traffic over the ball. Think safety valve and short-area mismatch rather than field-stretcher — the kind of tight end a young quarterback finds when the first read isn't there. (No play-by-play percentiles were available in the packet; this is a scouting read.)

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