Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight has a broken collarbone and will miss Saturday's home finale against Indiana, according to a person with knowledge of the injury.
The redshirt sophomore was hurt in the 14-13 loss at Iowa on Saturday. At Monday's news conference, U-M coach Jim Harbaugh declined to cite the severity of the injury. But the Free Press has learned that it was more severe than Speight knew after the game. A broken collarbone would knock him out for the foreseeable future.
MGoBlog.com was first to report the news.
In terms of a timetable, former U-M tailback Derrick Green suffered a broken collarbone Oct. 4, 2014 and was just returning to practice for the season finale in late November.
"It's going to depend on how he feels," Harbaugh said Monday. "Could be a (game-time decision). We will know based on what the doctors say and how Wilton's feeling.
"As always, per our principle, we don't go into the specifics."
Starting duties likely will fall to backup quarterback John O'Korn, who has relieved Speight in blowout wins all season.
"John, Shane (Morris), I would anticipate today, the next couple days, they'd get the majority of the reps," Harbaugh said Monday, "and that'd be good for them."
Though Speight has started all 10 games this year, O'Korn has significant experience. He started a year and a half at Houston in 2013 and 2014.
Speight was injured in the fourth quarter Saturday and spent the next defensive series on the sideline, getting examined by doctors putting their hands under his shoulder pads.
O'Korn had thrown a bit on the sideline, but then Speight returned for the final series. He threw an on-target third-down pass to Amara Darboh on the right sideline, a conversion that likely would have sealed a victory, but Darboh couldn't hold on.
