Richie Incognito's career at Nebraska may be over.

Following Tuesday's practice sources close to the Nebraska football program told Huskeronline.com that Incognito was involved in a locker room scuffle with sophomore wide receiver Grant Mulkey.

Incognito was not present at either Tuesday or Wednesday's practice, and sources close to the program said NU head coach Bill Callahan suspended him indefinitely after the locker room altercation took place.

Following Wednesday's practice, Callahan addressed the Incognito situation and confirmed the reports that Incognito was suspended indefinitely.

"Unfortunately yesterday I had to indefinitely suspend Richie Incognito for repeated violations of team rules," Callahan said. "It's unfortunate, but our team is moving onwards and getting ready for Western Illinois."

Callahan said despite Incognito's depature, he's not worried about the fate of the offensive line.

"I can't make any guarantees or promises," Callahan said. "But I'm very confident in what they can accomplish. We've got to move on."

"It's unfortunate, but as I said yesterday it's a privilege to play football at the University of Nebraska and it's not a right. We have team rules and they are very simple to follow. If they are not followed and they are not complied to you suffer the consequences."

Attempts to reach Incognito on his cell phone were unsuccessful, but Huskeronline.com did speak with Incognito's father early Wednesday afternoon.

Richard Incognito Sr. said he had plans to be in Lincoln on Friday, but is now attempting to get to town by Thursday so he can be with his son.

Every indication that Richard Incognito gave was his son's career at Nebraska is over.

"You won't be seeing Richie around practice anymore," Richard Incognito said. "He didn't quit that team though…he left for state of mind reasons."

A former teammate and close friend of Incognito's that wished to remain anonymous gave some insight on why Incognito may have left the program.

The former Husker offensive lineman said when Milt Tenopir was forced out after the 2002 season Incognito highly considered transferring.

"He wanted to leave when coach Tenopir left," he said. "He had all the intentions of leaving the team at that time. To be honest he probably should've left then.

"You have to give and take with everything. Richie plays with fire and you have to love his attitude on the field, but he had some problems dealing with adults. I don't know why he thinks he can run the team. Football is not a one-on-one sport and you can't have that kind of attitude when you are on a team."

When Tenopir was replaced by Barney Cotton in 2002 the former player said that's when the problems began for Incognito.

At one time, he said Cotton told the team during their pre-spring meetings that Incognito would no longer be with the team.

"For a while I thought he was done in 2003," he said. "Coach Cotton kicked him off the team for a day. He even told the entire line that day in one of our spring meetings that Richie wouldn't be with us.

"Coach Solich let Richie back onto the team on the condition that he went down to Topeka to have his anger problem dealt with."

Incognito spent two weeks at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka and entered into their "Athletes in Crisis Program."

Former Husker Lawrence Phillips and Major League Baseball player John Rocker are two other notable athletes that have been to the Menninger clinic for similar issues.

The program costs $750 per day and deals with the day-to-day rigors and stresses of being a high profile athlete.

"Coach Tenopir took Richie under his wings," the former player said. "Coach Cotton and Richie had their problems last year, but by the end of the season they built up a tolerance for each other. It doesn't sound like this new staff is going to put up with this stuff, he's gotten several chances already."

After several problems and issues, the former teammate and close friend of Incognito's said he hopes things can work out for the best.

"I feel sorry for Richie, but on the other hand you can't," he said. "Hopefully something good can turn out of this for Richie. He needs to go somewhere close to home that's close to his parents and his little brother.

"It wouldn't surprise me to see him end up at Arizona State. I know he's talked to people down there before about transferring when Tenopir left."