{"id":672952,"date":"2026-01-13T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:47:11","slug":"source-memphis-defensive-back-commits-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672952\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Memphis defensive back commits to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PSRXMUHMS5C6DGPMIFX5KA5XHQ\">Michigan football is set to add more help to the secondary via the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IZCNQZSC6NBNFO5GITYQ5RBN64\">Memphis defensive back Chris Bracy, who started in 11 games for the Tigers in 2025, committed to the Wolverines for 2026, The Ann Arbor News\/ MLive confirmed Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G3OYERFVGVAYPNRPDRECXC2COI\">Bracy, with two years of college eligibility left, has announced the move on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"R5NEVB3TCZFF5OY5PEF6J3DNJI\">Listed at 6 foot 1 and 195 pounds, Bracy ranked third in tackles (81) for Memphis in 2025, compiling 9.5 tackles for loss, a team-high nine pass breakups and one interception at safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2LPLZGYRDBF47B3LTURXHS6CWQ\">He transferred to Memphis from UAB, where he appeared in 15 games over the course of two seasons. Eleven of those came as a true freshman in 2023, and Bracy began 2024 in a starting role before a foot injury in Week 2 sidelined him for most of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PRZL7MCCTBA33GA5NDWLHU2O6U\">A Mobile, Ala., native, Bracy was a three-star prospect out St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal. He joins a Michigan secondary in need of experience after safeties Brandyn Hillman, TJ Metcalf and Jaden Mangham entered the transfer portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan football is set to add more help to the secondary via the transfer portal. Memphis defensive back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4024,7,49,48,4025],"class_list":["post-672952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-4024","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-wspix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115885509422823637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}