Ann Arbor – Something changed for Wilton Speight last season when, with starting quarterback Jake Rudock injured and on the sideline, the Wolverines trailing and the Minnesota game on the line, he had to take over.
Speight shrugged off a shaky first series and then led Michigan to the go-ahead touchdown, a 12-yard pass to Jehu Chesson with less than five minutes left.
That moment, to those who have worked with Speight, is when his confidence jumped.
“When you’re the No. 2 you have to prepare as the No. 1,” Jedd Fisch, Michigan’s quarterbacks/receivers coach and pass-game coordinator, said Wednesday.