Injuries are piling up for the Michigan Wolverines as the team enters a bye week before three remaining regular season games. One Michigan player who currently has an injury is linebacker/edge rusher Jaishawn Barham.
Barham left Michigan’s 21-16 win over Purdue on Saturday night after playing just two snaps. Barham would go to medical tent, then to the locker room, and eventually returned to the sideline in street clothes.
On Michigan’s post game radio show, Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore discussed Barham’s injury.
“Don’t really know much about it. Just a little bit of upper body injury,” Moore said. “I think he’ll end up being okay. This week, we’ll need to take care of him and make sure you get him back for that next game.”
Barham, who has mostly played at edge rusher this season after previously playing exclusively at linebacker, is up to three sacks this season and 25 tackles (17 solo). Barham has also registers seven QB hits.
Luckily for Barham and Michigan, they have a bye week, which will allow him to rest up and heal up before Michigan takes on Northwestern at Wrigley Field on November 15. However, Moore doesn’t to speculate about Barham’s status for that game just yet.
“We’ll see how this week goes,” Moore told the media. “I could say he’d come back, but we’ll see how this week goes.”
