Michigan football offensive coordinator Kirk Campbell stepped to the lectern inside Al Glick Field House to give his thoughts on the year ahead and was peppered with question after question about his new-look offense.

The defending national champion Wolverines officially begin their title defense when fall camp begins Wednesday and heading into the first week of the new year, all signs indicate the defense (like in the spring) is well ahead of the attack.

Frankly, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

The defense returns a trio of projected first round picks in cornerback Will Johnson and defensive tackles Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant from last year's unit which ranked No. 1 in the country in points allowed and yards against, while the offense returns just a single full-time starter: tight end Colston Loveland.

The pieces on Campbell's side of the ball are less-known commodities than those at the disposal of new defensive coordinator Wink Martindale, however, that didn't stop U-M's former analyst turned quarterbacks coached turned offensive coordinator from gushing about his group that he says is more experienced than it gets credit for.

"We've got a lot of guys coming back who got a lot of playing time like Tyler Morris, and if you don't consider him a starter, you better consider Semaj Morgan a starter," he began. "When we had a fullback in the game, Max Bredeson was a starter. We have Josh Priebe, yeah he didn't start here but he started at Northwestern. Myles Hinton started last season, so we have a lot of guys with experience.

"The players we have in the room are just so explosive and dynamic ... I couldn't be any more confident in the ability of those guys."

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When it comes to what the offense will look like, Campbell will be the first to say it depends on who is playing quarterback. Currently, there are three players in the front of the mix in seventh-year graduate Jack Tuttle, senior Davis Warren and junior Alex Orji.

Tuttle is the most experienced. Not only is he the lone player of the group to have started any college games, his 199 pass attempts is nearly 10 times more attempts than Warren (14), Orji (1) and Jayden Denegal (5) combined.

Though Orji has been viewed as the starter from the outside throughout the offseason, that's not necessarily how it is viewed in the building, as the competition is set to really heat up when the helmets go on later this week and the battle truly begins.

"We're going to start with the oldest down to the youngest," Campbell said, implying on day one that Tuttle will be up first with the first team offense. "That's a fluid operation that will change daily. We will make sure everybody gets a chance to run with the ones and we will evaluate it as a day by day process."

Each player brings a different look to the group. Tuttle, who had to sit out the spring with an injury but is expected to be full go for camp, is like "a coach on the field" and has backed up a pair of NFL quarterbacks in J.J. McCarthy and Michael Penix Jr.

Orji, a 6-foot-3 and 235-pounder is the athlete of the group, while Warren (as evidenced by his deep shot to Kendrick Bell in the spring game) is said to throw as good a ball as anybody in the room. Campbell said there will not be a rush to make a decision, but did acknowledge time is of the essence as the team searches for its new commander, which will largely dictate how Campbell not only calls his plays, but expands the playbook.

"You know, you have this pot of an offense, where there's some things that you're going to ask any quarterback to do these things," he began. "Then, there's things another guy might do a little better than another if he became a starter, and we would build that package a little more.

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"So yes, there is a finite amount of offense that's like 'This is what Michigan is and the offense Michigan will run' but you know Jack Tuttle, Davis Warren, Alex Orji and down the list, it may deviate into a smaller package or something else that can highlight and accentuate their skillsets as a player."

No matter who wins the starting role, Campbell said it's his job to make sure he's catering the offense to fit the skillset of the playmakers. That goes for everybody from Donovan Edwards, who is expected to be the lead back in place of U-M's all-time touchdown leader Blake Corum, to Tyler Morris, who position coach Ron Bellamy called "the alpha" in the wide receivers room earlier this offseason.

"I've been on record saying this, but any good offensive coordinator tailors their offense to their players," Campbell said. "Donovan Edwards, different running styles than Blake Corum. Still going to be asked to do some of the same things, but we've got to get him in the open field, get him in space, one-on-one with linebackers which is what he does really well.

Campbell went well beyond just the names mentioned here.

He also discussed Morgan, a rising sophomore who he intends to move around the formation and not just in the slot. There's also Loveland, who he called "probably the best tight end in the country" and don't forget about Max Bredeson, the H-back who represented U-M in Indianapolis last week who plays both tight end and fullback and is said to have expanded his game to be a more versatile option.

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"He's a glue player," Campbell said. "Not just his mentality, the way he plays, but how he is around the players. He's got a good way about him − smart, intelligent, great energy, great player."

At this juncture on the offensive line − which could be argued was the core of the team's success the past three seasons − Campbell said there are about seven players who he feels very good about entering the game. In recent years, they've been 10 deep in the room, but his goal this year is to get to eight or nine.

It's a different time in Ann Arbor this fall in a lot of ways, but the storyline of a defense that may have to help carry an offense is not a new one. It's also, according to Campbell, not going to be the case.

"We had a really good spring," Campbell said. "Our defense is the best in the country, I know that but we're a complementary football team. We're going to exectue on offense at a high level, on defense at a high level and be the best special teams in the country."

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan OC Kirk Campbell 'couldn't be any more confident' in offense