Darboh says WRs took reps from both QBs in practice today

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Not sure what it means overall (given all the misinformation that will happen this week) but good to hear in my opinion.

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Senior WR Amara Darboh confirms that QB Wilton Speight has been practicing.

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Darboh said Speight "seemed fine" when asked how he's holding up

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trustBlue

November 22nd, 2016 at 10:47 PM ^

Wat? 

There's no way Harbaugh would waste significant practice time giving reps to Speight instead of O'Korn (who clearly needs as much practice time as he can get), unless he thought there was a strong chance that Speight would be able to play on Saturday.  

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blackgandhi

November 22nd, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^

I was the one with that report from that scrum, and it jibed with what I had heard earlier. My takeaway was that he didn't mean to say it, and once he said it, he kind of had this *should I have not said that?* sort of reaction from him. 

I don't think there was an SID right there, so take that FWIW.

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Heywood_Jablome

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:03 PM ^

I tend to believe the early reports that he had a broken collarbone.  In which case, he could very well be throwing the ball, but there is no possible way he could play and get hit.

Hopefully this is gamesmanship, otherwise it's taking valuable reps away from O'korn.

Still think the chances of him starting are <10% and that's assuming the broken collar bone thing is false.  If that's true, 0% chance he plays.

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lilpenny1316

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:06 PM ^

They have to keep Speight clean if he's gonna go.  You know OSU players will try to touch that left shoulder as much as possible.

I am a little worried though at how much this injury will affect his escapability.  Instead of extending plays with his feet to make a pass downfield, I wonder if he'll just throw the ball away instead.

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uminks

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:13 PM ^

It would be possible after 2 to 3 weeks for a young player to recover. He would not be throwing the ball deep if he had a broken collar bone. I say that Wilton will start.

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mediocracy2

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:20 PM ^

If that's a non-injured Speight or JOK, then so be it. An injured QB can get jumpy in there and start making some really ill adivised throws and that CAN'T happen vs that OSU secondary.

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lilpenny1316

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:53 PM ^

Then I'm fine with that.  WSU lost to an FCS team.  And unless Colorado beats UW for the title, they won't have a top-15 win under their belt.  If UW and somehow Clemson lose in the next two weeks, it's going to get pretty ugly for the committee.  How do you separate out a bunch of 2-loss teams?

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MichiganMan14

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:26 PM ^

"But if they do put him in, no mercy. Need to get after him early and hard. Take shots on him even if they're borderline." "I'mean telling our players to go after him hard every down." So now that we have established the intent from the darkness....lets everyone pack onto the Whoopass Wagon and get our minds right to will our boys to smack these Sallies on Saturday.

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Hard-Baughlls

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:27 PM ^

They will shoot that shoulder up with whatever pain killer is legal.  As long as his throwing motion isn't affected by the injury, he'll be good to go.

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BoFan

November 22nd, 2016 at 7:30 PM ^

It was probably mentioned already but I read Spieght injured his non throwing shoulder. So for ex QBs on the board how big a deal is that?

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