Usually the idiom is about adding insult to injury, but given how the Michigan football team has played this season, at times, it's had injuries added to the insults.
The Wolverines were huge underdogs to Oregon on the road in Eugene on Saturday, and the maize and blue acquiesced by giving up 31 points -- the most this season. The offense under interim OC Jim Harding could only muster seven points, off a 70-yard Savion Hiter touchdown run. But beyond that, there wasn't much.
And in particular, the passing game was anemic, with just 71 yards between Tommy Carr and Bryce Underwood.
The injury added to insult came early. In the first quarter, sophomore wide receiver JJ Buchanan, the team's leading pass catcher, went out after a targeted pass he wasn't
able to come down with. As head coach Kyle Whittingham tells it, Buchanan's injury was severe enough that he ended up leaving the stadium and heading to emergency.
"JJ, they took him to the hospital," Whittingham said. "I don't know beyond that, other than they were taking him to the hospital for more tests and just to check him out and make sure he's OK. "
Whittingham wasn't sure, but he believes he had injured his shoulder.
"Apparently," Whittingham said. "I don't know much about it."
On the broadcast, sideline reporter Josh Sims noted that Buchanan appeared emotional in the immediate aftermath of the injury, tearing up according to the report. Given that the injury was serious enough for him to go to the hospital, it would seem unlikely that he would be able to play at least next week against UCLA, if not the week after at Ohio State.
This article originally appeared on Wolverines Wire: Michigan football WR JJ Buchanan taken to hospital after Oregon injury
