Russell Bellomy Tears ACL Comment Count

Brian

perrycolor[1]You can decommit from Purdue all you want, Russell Bellomy, but Perry the ACLephant will find you and destroy your ligaments.

Michigan redshirt sophomore quarterback Russell Bellomy has suffered an ACL tear in spring practice, TheWolverine.com has learned and U-M has confirmed.

Bellomy is currently the only scholarship quarterback on the roster other than Devin Gardner. Shane Morris arrives in fall, and just about can't redshirt unless Michigan is going to throw a walk-on out there in the event of a Gardner ding.

Michigan's depth chart is really feeling the absence of a quarterback in last year's class. One per year, every year, is what Michigan wants to do from now on; let's hope they do so.

Comments

feanor

April 1st, 2013 at 3:48 PM ^

If you don't allow your second string QB to get in games early in the season, and Gardner were to miss a week at the end of the season, thenyou have a freshman getting his first playing time of his career in a B1G game with no backup at all.  

An more easy way to put this for Michigan fans to understand, you have Russell Bellomy at Nebraska last year, although he had made about 5 throws before that game.

M-Wolverine

April 1st, 2013 at 4:24 PM ^

(redshirt) sophomore Devin Gardner.  Anyone who goes in, whether they have some experience or not is going to have problems in a big game late in the season. It's basically the same as putting in 2010 Devin.  Remember his Spring games when he was unseasoned?  There will be a time when if a QB goes down the season might be salvagable because of an experienced AND talented backup.  It's probably still a few years away. And even then it's just keeping the season from crashing and burning, not winning big time.

Tom Pickle

April 1st, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^

What's to stop Shane Morris from redshirting in 2014? If Gardner is still the starter and Bellomy comes back couldn't Morris just delay his redshirt a year?

CRex

April 1st, 2013 at 3:12 PM ^

Cleary, the walking on Detroit Jesuit, was a 2*.  I'll just go hope that if Gardner needs a breather, Cleary can come in for a play or two and hand it off.

I wonder if we can pillage a JUCO or something for a warm body.  Unlikely of course, but maybe a second Nick Montana will pop up.  

Lucky Socks

April 1st, 2013 at 3:13 PM ^

Robert Marve PLAYED with the injury.  If Garnder goes down we're screwed anyway, right?  Bellomy has 6 months to recover.  QB isn't a position where he's going to be expected to juke and dodge the defense.  If he recovers to 75% (reasonable in 6 months), he might be able to be a pocket statue/handoff guy.  I think it might be a little too soon to say that his season is over.  Medicine is wild these days.  Granted, I don't expect Bellomy to pull an Adrian Peterson -- but his position requirements are much different.  Robert Marve gives us all hope.  

WolvinLA2

April 1st, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^

I agree with that, and even if 6 months isn't enough, if he missed the OOC games and the first couple Big Ten games, that isn't the end of the world.

Cleary will be taking all of the second team snaps in spring and will put in work over the summer, and could handle the garbage time work until Bellomy comes back.

3rdGenerationBlue

April 1st, 2013 at 3:14 PM ^

So does this mean Brian and the gang will go back to ripping on some poor walk-on QB for doing his best in a very difficult situation? Brian probably called a team meeting to spitball negative nickname ideas for the backup QBs.

Perkis-Size Me

April 1st, 2013 at 3:19 PM ^

In spite of all the good news we're getting from basketball, the only news we've been getting lately from football has been nothing but bad. Actually it hasn't been bad, its been flat-out awful.

I hope Russell has a speedy recovery, but for the love of God, please no one touch Devin for the next five months. Leaving our offense in the hands of a true freshman, one who's redshirt we might as well kiss good-bye right now, is nothing short of terrifying.

DonAZ

April 1st, 2013 at 3:21 PM ^

Can we fit Gardner for knee braces, please?

I wonder how this changes Borge's general game plan thoughts for 2013 ... does he notch it back a bit on read options that might expose Gardner?  Does he roll the dice and hope he's got a running game that can take Gardner's legs out of the mix?

M-Wolverine

April 1st, 2013 at 4:28 PM ^

One where they couldn't afford to have him take hits, because they had NO ONE to back him up, even for the "I got dinged and need to sit out a series" plays.  With the talk of what kind of film they were studying, he wasn't going to run like Denard, but there might have been some actual called run plays in there. Now they'll probably all be on scrambles, or at the goalline.

bubblelevel

April 1st, 2013 at 3:32 PM ^

You are idiots - you don't have knowledge of it and you ask why the coaches would let him be hit (and therefore cause the injury).  BTW it was not the result of contact - just happened. 

AnthonyThomas

April 1st, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^

As others have stated, Bellomy can come back and be ready to play back up. There's no guarantee Morris wouldn't have beaten him out for second string anyway. Yes, it makes the depth chart that much thinner, but there are worse things that could happen. We've also been extremely fortuante over the last two years when it comes to injuries. Other than Denard's problems (which crept up on a weekly basis sometimes), and Countess, we really had no injury problems. 

funkywolve

April 1st, 2013 at 4:19 PM ^

While Morris might have beaten Bellomy out for second string, that might not affect who would play in mop up duty.  If the coaches wanted to redshirt Morris, they might have thrown Bellomy in for garbage time.  However, if Gardner got hurt and was going to be out for a few games, Morris would have then gotten the nod.

markusr2007

April 1st, 2013 at 3:54 PM ^

Should anything happen to Gardner, Michigan will burn the redshirt of Shane Morris.

But just one of these years, I'd like to see a RS 3rd string backup walk-on QB at Michigan who nobody knows nor respects just light it up inexplicably and leave people slack jawed.

 

 

bostonsix

April 1st, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^

Hoke has been pretty adamant on going 100% for experience over, caution to injury. Not that I like any of this bad news, but I like the philosophy as it has shown big time on the field, compared to the RR era. The QBs aren't getting hit anyway, and as for JMFR, it sucks tremendously, but on the other hand if they are going that hard its helping all the other players get a feel for real game speed and game hits. ACL tears are freak things. I tore mine playing pick up BB by trying to juke and cut in for a layup. I didn't make the layup.