Wilton Speight
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class | Senior |
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| High school | Collegiate (Richmond, VA) |
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| Date of birth | December 6, 1994 |
| Place of birth | Henrico County, Virginia |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Weight | 239 lb (108 kg) |
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Robert Wilton Speight III (born December 6, 1994) is an American football quarterback. He is currently a redshirt sophomore and the starting quarterback for the 2016 Michigan Wolverines football team. After redshirting in 2014, he was Michigan's backup quarterback in 2015 and led the Wolverines to a fourth quarter comeback against Minnesota. As a starter for the 2016 team, he earned third-team All-Big Ten honors. Speight was selected by ESPN.com as the seventh best high school quarterback and played in the 2014 Under Armour All-America Game. His grandfather is 1953 basketball All-American Bobby Speight.
Speight was born in 1994 in Henrico County, Virginia. His father, Robert Wilton Speight, Jr., played basketball, and his grandfather, Robert Wilton Speight, Sr., was a second-team All-American basketball player in 1953 who later had his jersey retired at NC State. Speight is the oldest of three brothers; his younger brothers are Griffin and Jess.
Speight played high school football for Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia. He was a highly recruited Virginia high school athlete who was being recruited by the likes of Virginia Tech until a severe collarbone injury during the first game of his fall 2011 junior season that required a metal plate and eight screws to repair caused most schools to lose interest in him. Speight had previously had a medial collateral ligament injury. Speight hired quarterback guru Steve Clarkson to help him regain his form and posted 2,900 yards and 32 touchdowns in 10 games during the 2012 season. He was unranked by most services at the time. A few months later after player rankings were reassessed following his second chance at his junior season in 2012, he was the number 7 ranked quarterback in the national class of 2014 according to ESPN. Other ratings services also returned him to their class of 2014 rankings: 16 by Rivals.com and 21 by Scout.com following his reclassification. Speight appeared in the 2014 Under Armour All-America Game, completing two of six passes for 63 yards. He started at quarterback and served as team captain.
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