{"id":756877,"date":"2026-02-16T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/756877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:32:29","slug":"michigan-football-de-john-henry-daley-gives-encouraging-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/756877\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Football DE John Henry Daley gives \u2018encouraging\u2019 injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Michigan landed a major recruit this offseason in Utah transfer defensive end John Henry Daley. The Utah standout had 48 tackles (24 solo), 11.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in 2025. Henry Daley is currently in the midst of a rehab process after he ruptured his Achilles last season. And in fact, his rehab is going great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMan, it\u2019s going better than expected,\u201d Daley said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s blown away with the progress I\u2019ve made so far. It\u2019s been very, very encouraging on all fronts \u2014 better than I expected, better than the surgeon expected and we are flying along in the process. Got to be patient with this, can\u2019t rush anything, but, at the same time, they want an aggressive approach to it, and I\u2019m feeling great, walking just fine, doing everything great and just looking at the next steps now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Daley\u2019s recovery winds up being as good as it sounds, the hype surrounding him is bound to increase \u2014 and the hype is already quite high. The 6-foot-4, 255-pound edge rusher made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/47887250\/2026-college-football-way-too-early-all-america-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\u2019s 2026 Way-Too-Early All-America Team<\/a>. Daley views his production last season as a starting point for what he\u2019s capable of. If that\u2019s the case, he\u2019s bound to be one of the most dangerous pass rushers in college football and rack up a ton of sacks in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI feel like that\u2019s the floor\u2014not the ceiling\u2014 of what I\u2019m going to be able to do,\u201d Daley said. \u201cObviously, I just need to keep on attacking my rehab and doing everything that\u2019s necessary, but I\u2019ll be back, and I won\u2019t be back to where I was, but I\u2019ll be better than I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan landed a major recruit this offseason in Utah transfer defensive end John Henry Daley. The Utah standout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,580,52888,46647,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-756877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football","10":"tag-michigan-football-news","11":"tag-michigan-football-injuries","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116082688791244307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756877","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=756877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}