Ace Hamilton

Michigan Opens With Two Players Out For The Year And Only One Of Them Happened In Fall Camp

Whittingham told reporters Friday that Michigan came out of fall camp with one long-term injury, freshman interior lineman Ace Hamilton. That is accurate and it is a claim about a 4-week window. Michigan will open against Western Michigan on September 5 with two players lost for the season, because junior running back Micah Ka'apana went down in the spring and was ruled out on April 9. The spring is the half of the year Whittingham ran deliberately violent, and he said so on Big Ten Network on April 16, including the sentence where he priced it: there is an element of risk. He also said the fall would be scaled back, which is exactly what he did at Utah in August 2025, when his first-team offense took thud work in the first scrimmage and the second team took every live rep.