Education
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan.
He is playing his redshirt senior season for the 2015 Michigan Wolverines football team He was a 2011 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com and BTN.com Big Ten All-Freshman selection as well as a 2011 College Football News All-Freshman honorable mention for the 2011 team In high school, he was rated as the 24th and 42nd best high school football inside or middle linebacker in the national class of 2011 by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and Scout.com, respectively.
Rivals.com rated him as the 25th best football player in the state of Michigan.
Morgan also played quarterback in high school. Morgan was a Michigan Wolverines fan growing up, and he committed to Michigan in early February 2011.
2011 season
Morgan tweaked his hamstring at the end of training camp, which limited him early in the season. Morgan is credited with starting the second game against Notre Dame on September 10, however, he struggled with his hamstring in the rivalry game.
Brandon Hawthorne started the next five games.
After seven games and a bye week, Morgan replaced Hawthorne as the starting weak-side linebacker based on superior performance. In announcing Morgan"s promotion to the starting lineup, head coach Brady Hoke said, "Desmond"s got a great future. He"s doing a lot of good things.
We"re excited about him." In his second career start on October 29, 2011 against Purdue, he had a team-high nine tackles.
Morgan established career highs with 10 tackles in both of the final two games of the season: he posted 5 solo (including his only quarterback sack of the season) and five assists on November 26 in The Game against Ohio State and then he had seven solo tackles and three assists in the January 3, 2012 Sugar Bowl against Virginia Technology Foreign the season, he earned 2011 Big Ten All-Freshman team recognition from both Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com and BTN.com as well as 2011 College Football News All-Freshman honorable mention honors.
2012 season
Morgan missed the September 15, 2012 game against Massachusetts due to injury. On October 13, 2012, Michigan designated Gerald R. Ford"s former jersey, Number.
48, as a Michigan Football Legend Jersey.
Morgan was honored as the first recipient of the Ford legend jersey, switching from the Number. 44 jersey to Number. 48. He earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in 2012. 2013 season
In the fourth quarter of the fourth game against Connecticut on September 21, Morgan made a one-handed interception to preserve a 24–21 victory.
Morgan was named Athlon Sports Big Ten Defensive player of the week.
2014 season
He only appeared in the season opener for the 2014 Michigan Wolverines football team against Appalachian State before injuring his hand and missing the rest of the season. 2015 season
Through the first nine game of the 2015 season, Morgan was Michigan"s leading tackler with 57 total tackles.
Following the 2015 Big Ten Conference football season, he was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection.