Speight cleared to return to practice

This is great news for Wilton, and hopefully this means he is recovering very well.

On the same token, I really can't imagine being his parents. With all that happened in the saga of his injury at Purdue, I would have a hard time stomaching my child - potentially - going back onto the field.

Knock-on-wood...I've never messed up my back, but family and friends of mine that have describe it as a sense of near-constant pain and torture. I would hate for a young man to jeopardize decades of quality-of-life just to throw a football...I wish him nothing short of the absolute best, but if he doesn't throw another football for UM, I'm also okay with that too.

We'll see how Peters looks against a defense with a pulse.  I'm interested to see who starts against OSU and who starts the bowl game.

Wonder how much he has been allowed to do the last weeks? Of course, we all know there is nothing that replicates game reps or "real" practice reps in pads. That said, has he been in a state of R&R with exceptionally light rehab the last weeks or has he been able to work his ass off, throw, and stay in shape? 

Again..."working out" doesn't replicate solid practice reps but there is also a big difference if he has been able to work his nuts off and throw for weeks versus being a maniquinn for weeks. 

Yes...I'm an athletic trainer...these injuries and the timetables vary wildly and of course I/we don't know the minutia of the injury. At the college I worked at we had a player miss no games for a spinal fracture...just a whole lot of variability depending on the scope of the injury.