{"id":832026,"date":"2026-03-25T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/832026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:40:15","slug":"michigan-football-lands-first-recruiting-commitment-of-kyle-whittingham-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/832026\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Football lands first recruiting commitment of Kyle Whittingham era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Michigan Wolverines landed their first commitment of the Kyle Whittingham era on Tuesday evening, as 2027 four-star safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/darrell-mattison-282098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Mattison<\/a> made things official on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-2, 160-pounder from Chicago was offered by Michigan back in January and is coming off an unofficial visit to Ann Arbor this past weekend, a visit that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maizenbrew.com\/michigan-football-recruiting\/108574\/michigan-football-recruiting-quarterback-dane-weber-tj-lewis-darrell-mattison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> \u201cmind-blowing.\u201d He has seemingly formed a strong bond pretty fast with new Michigan safeties coach Tyler Stockton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s a very genuine, very kind guy,\u201d Mattison told On3\u2019s Ethan McDowell. \u201cHe\u2019s very just upfront, you know? He doesn\u2019t BS you \u2014 excuse my language \u2014 but he\u2019s a very straightforward guy \u2026 he was just saying how he sees me as, basically, not one of his players, but I would be treated as one of his own. The message he was relaying was pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition to the Wolverines, Mattison also had offers from schools like Ole Miss, Indiana, Penn State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Washington, Michigan State, Louisville, Iowa State and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Michigan is now up to four commitments in the 2027 class, as Mattison joins four-star edge rusher Recarder Kitchen, and three-star offensive linemen Tristan Dare and Louis Esposito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mattison is ranked No. 410 overall on the 247Sports composite. As a junior in 2025, he compiled 47 total tackles, one tackle for loss, five interceptions, three pass breakups and one fumble recovery. Check out some of his best highlights from last season at Morgan Park High School in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan Wolverines landed their first commitment of the Kyle Whittingham era on Tuesday evening, as 2027 four-star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,10671,10672,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-832026","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-recruiting","10":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting-news","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116287034472020251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832026","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=832026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}