The Northwestern football team learned tonight that senior running back Tyrell Sutton will miss the rest of the season after suffering a wrist injury in last Saturday’s game at Indiana. Sutton, who has rushed for 776 yards and six touchdowns this season, is expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday and could possibly return if the Wildcats play in a bowl game.
Stepping in for Sutton will be Communication senior Omar Conteh. In 2007 Conteh ran for 447 yards while filling in for Sutton, who missed five games that season with an ankle sprain.
Losing Sutton, the 2005 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and a Communication senior, is part of a series of bad breaks for the 6-2 Wildcats. Northwestern has already lost their starting middle linebacker, Communication senior Malcolm Arrington, for the year to injury. Quarterback CJ Bacher, a Communication senior, was injured in the fourth quarter of the Indiana game and is listed as questionable for Saturday’s game at Minnesota. If Bacher is unable to go, the starting quarterback will be Communication senior Mike Kafka. Kafka came in for Bacher late in the fourth quarter against the Hoosiers but proved unable to create a Wildcat rally.