U-M adds commitment from Alabama RB Davis

Michigan's recruiting weekend is paying off.

The Wolverines got their third commitment in the past four days when Prattville, Ala., three-star running back Kingston Davis announced on Twitter that he's coming for the 2016 season.

If Prattville sounds familiar, that's because one of Davis' high school teammates, defensive back Keith Washington, hopped into U-M's 2015 class in February and because Prattville is where U-M will hold one stop on its summer camp tour in June.

Davis, who visited Ann Arbor for the spring game this weekend, is a 6-foot-1, 225-pounder who is ranked by rivals.com as the No. 24 player in Alabama.

He joins recent commitments Brandon Peters, an Avon, Ind., quarterback, who announced Friday night, and Farmington linebacker/fullback David Reese, who flipped from Louisville on Saturday.

The U-M 2016 class is now up to five players, including two who already were in the fold under Brady Hoke and builds a backfield that resembles those coach Jim Harbaugh had at Stanford with a fullback, a powerful tailback and a tall quarterback.

The commitment is also a sign of the changing focus of Michigan recruiting under Harbaugh.

All five commitments in the class are from different states and Davis is from the South, joining Washington and three Florida players who were in the 2015 class.

While Rich Rodriguez's staff also heavily recruited Florida, Hoke only took two from Florida (Brady Pallante and Mason Cole) and two from Virginia (Derrick Green and Wilton Speight) in his 3½ recruiting classes from 2011-14.

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