Wilton Speight

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.

Jess, earned a scholarship as a third year defensive lineman at Michigan.

Speight played high school football and basketball for the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia.

Robert Wilton Speight III (born December 6, 1994) is a former American football quarterback.

He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines and UCLA.

Speight was born in Henrico County, Virginia, on December 6, 1994.

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 ten 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.

In early February 2013, Speight received a scholarship offer, and promptly verbally committed, to play college football at the University of Michigan.

On October 16, 2013, he signed his early enrollment letter.

In high school, he was a 2014 Under Armour All-America Game selection and subsequently committed to play in college for Michigan.

Speight redshirted in 2014 and was the backup quarterback in 2015.

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.

In 2014, Speight was named the Collegiate School's Outstanding Senior Athlete, an award given to the "senior boy who has contributed most to the athletic program through leadership, cooperation, sportsmanship and ability."

In January 2014, he enrolled early at Michigan.

He attended Michigan's spring camp in March 2014 under coach Brady Hoke.

Speight redshirted his entire freshman season for the 2014 Wolverines as fifth-year senior Devin Gardner led the team.

As a redshirt freshman for the 2015 Wolverines, Speight began the season as a backup to Jake Rudock and Shane Morris.

Speight made his Michigan debut on September 12, 2015, taking kneel-down snaps in the closing minutes of a victory over Oregon State.

Asked why he played Speight instead of Morris at the end of the Oregon State game, head coach Jim Harbaugh explained that he did not want to burn Morris's redshirt year on a meaningless snap, emphasizing that Morris remained his No. 2 quarterback.

Harbaugh ultimately decided to redshirt Morris during the 2015 season, resulting in Speight seeing playing time as Rudock's principal backup.

Speight failed to complete a pass in three attempts against UNLV on September 19 and in his only pass attempt against Maryland on October 3, 2015.

Speight received his first significant playing time on October 31, 2015, in the Little Brown Jug rivalry game against Minnesota.

After Rudock was injured in the third quarter, Speight came into the game.

With five minutes remaining and Michigan trailing 26–21, Speight led Michigan on a game-winning drive culminating in 12-yard pass to wide receiver Jehu Chesson and a pass to wide receiver Amara Darboh for a two-point conversion.

Speight completed three of six passes for 29 yards and one rush for six yards.

The two-point conversion gave Michigan a three-point lead that forced Minnesota into a decision to attempt to score a touchdown on the goal line as time expired.

Speight had not completed any passes prior to that game.

Harbaugh explained that Speight had earned the backup role in practice in the preceding weeks.

Speight next saw significant playing time against Ohio State on November 28, 2015.

As a redshirt sophomore in 2016, he started 12 games and earned third-team All-Big Ten honors.

In 2017, Speight started four games before suffering a season-ending injury.

In April 2018, Speight transferred to UCLA for his final season of eligibility.

He later signed as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco 49ers in 2019, but did not make the team during final roster cuts, ending his NFL career.