Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards. Lol. Itās ok to admit our running back stable isnāt that good. Because itās not. Cj is good. Canāt ever stay healthy. Donāt think you can consider him great when he plays half the games. Dye is a third down back at best and fumbles too much. Dollars looks good but we havenāt seen him enough. Was hoping weād see him more vs isu after having some nice runs against sc, but no. Habibi gone. Benson redshirted after surgery. Who in that group would you argue is great? Terrence Whitehead is better than all of them. When you put it like that, itās interesting and true, although Verdell has been better than Whitehead was as a Duck.Turns out Royce Freemans donāt grow on trees, and even heās about one more year away from being out of the NFL. LaMike flamed out almost immediately, Byron Marshall never even played in the NFL, and Barner is a special teams player bouncing around teams.I do like Dollars a lot too. He deserves more carries next year. Cyrus was not good other than as a 3rd and very short back.The only real āgreatā RB Oregon has had in recent years is Blount and he lost his shit against Hout and then had a crucial fumble in the Rose Bowl that should have been a TD fun.Thanks for the further thoughts on your opinion.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards. Lol. Itās ok to admit our running back stable isnāt that good. Because itās not. Cj is good. Canāt ever stay healthy. Donāt think you can consider him great when he plays half the games. Dye is a third down back at best and fumbles too much. Dollars looks good but we havenāt seen him enough. Was hoping weād see him more vs isu after having some nice runs against sc, but no. Habibi gone. Benson redshirted after surgery. Who in that group would you argue is great? Terrence Whitehead is better than all of them.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now?
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards. Lol. Itās ok to admit our running back stable isnāt that good. Because itās not. Cj is good. Canāt ever stay healthy. Donāt think you can consider him great when he plays half the games. Dye is a third down back at best and fumbles too much. Dollars looks good but we havenāt seen him enough. Was hoping weād see him more vs isu after having some nice runs against sc, but no. Habibi gone. Benson redshirted after surgery. Who in that group would you argue is great? Terrence Whitehead is better than all of them. When you put it like that, itās interesting and true, although Verdell has been better than Whitehead was as a Duck.Turns out Royce Freemans donāt grow on trees, and even heās about one more year away from being out of the NFL. LaMike flamed out almost immediately, Byron Marshall never even played in the NFL, and Barner is a special teams player bouncing around teams.I do like Dollars a lot too. He deserves more carries next year. Cyrus was not good other than as a 3rd and very short back.The only real āgreatā RB Oregon has had in recent years is Blount and he lost his shit against Hout and then had a crucial fumble in the Rose Bowl that should have been a TD fun.Thanks for the further thoughts on your opinion. Iād say both kenjon and lmj were great bordering on elite college running backs.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards. Lol. Itās ok to admit our running back stable isnāt that good. Because itās not. Cj is good. Canāt ever stay healthy. Donāt think you can consider him great when he plays half the games. Dye is a third down back at best and fumbles too much. Dollars looks good but we havenāt seen him enough. Was hoping weād see him more vs isu after having some nice runs against sc, but no. Habibi gone. Benson redshirted after surgery. Who in that group would you argue is great? Terrence Whitehead is better than all of them. When you put it like that, itās interesting and true, although Verdell has been better than Whitehead was as a Duck.Turns out Royce Freemans donāt grow on trees, and even heās about one more year away from being out of the NFL. LaMike flamed out almost immediately, Byron Marshall never even played in the NFL, and Barner is a special teams player bouncing around teams.I do like Dollars a lot too. He deserves more carries next year. Cyrus was not good other than as a 3rd and very short back.The only real āgreatā RB Oregon has had in recent years is Blount and he lost his shit against Hout and then had a crucial fumble in the Rose Bowl that should have been a TD fun.Thanks for the further thoughts on your opinion. Iād say both kenjon and lmj were great bordering on elite college running backs. System backsI totally forgot Jonathon Stewart, by far is the best all-around back for Oregon since football was invented in 1994. Rueben Droughns and Onterrio Smith were also elite. Mo Morris is up there with them.Jeremiah Johnson was a good college back as well.
Another Great Running Back. We are blessed.šššhttps://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/byron-cardwell-236737 How many great running backs would you say we have right now? .5. One, on the odd times where Verdell is healthy. He has rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his 2 full seasons-averaging around 5.5 yards per carry Thatās simply not good enough for a former All-American such as @ntxduck. The man has standards. Lol. Itās ok to admit our running back stable isnāt that good. Because itās not. Cj is good. Canāt ever stay healthy. Donāt think you can consider him great when he plays half the games. Dye is a third down back at best and fumbles too much. Dollars looks good but we havenāt seen him enough. Was hoping weād see him more vs isu after having some nice runs against sc, but no. Habibi gone. Benson redshirted after surgery. Who in that group would you argue is great? Terrence Whitehead is better than all of them. When you put it like that, itās interesting and true, although Verdell has been better than Whitehead was as a Duck.Turns out Royce Freemans donāt grow on trees, and even heās about one more year away from being out of the NFL. LaMike flamed out almost immediately, Byron Marshall never even played in the NFL, and Barner is a special teams player bouncing around teams.I do like Dollars a lot too. He deserves more carries next year. Cyrus was not good other than as a 3rd and very short back.The only real āgreatā RB Oregon has had in recent years is Blount and he lost his shit against Hout and then had a crucial fumble in the Rose Bowl that should have been a TD fun.Thanks for the further thoughts on your opinion. Iād say both kenjon and lmj were great bordering on elite college running backs. System backsI totally forgot Jonathon Stewart, by far is the best all-around back for Oregon since football was invented in 1994. Rueben Droughns and Onterrio Smith were also elite. Mo Morris is up there with them.Jeremiah Johnson was a good college back as well. JJ is my all time favorite duck. Saw him start multiple fights in practice when guys werenāt going hard enough
1. Terrence Whitehead is the worst. 2. CJ is not awful, but what a sad state of affairs for the conference when this is the most well known RB it has to offer. 3. Byron Marshall drew three years of active roster NFL paychecks and another year of practice squad pay. More than expected for a 5ā9ā back with 4.58 speed. 4. Travis Dye is the best running back on this team. Heās better than Verdell. Six fumbles in 367 touches is shitty. Wear some gloves. He should still be the starter, though. Dye should have been used more this past season. Arroyo had under utilized him, I think Moorhead understands now that consistently CJ can only be counted to run into the backs of the offensive linemen and get injured. Some Travis Dye stats:* 50th ranked RB in the 2018 class, of the 49 ahead of him only Jermar Jefferson has rushed for more yards. It was a shitty year for RBs, but shiniest turd. * Career 5.9 YPC is 7th out of Oregonās top 25 career RB rushers. Top yards per catch out of players who exclusively played RB. * Dye is 14/16 in his career on converting 3rd and 3 or less on runs. That is amazing. Heās also 3/4 on 4th down. Yet they kept running the TD vulture and CJ because everyone is dumb. Maybe the shiftiest back is better than the slow ass and the blind one? Just an idea. * In 2020 Dye carried it 28 times on first down for an average of 9 YPC and a long of only 26. * In 310 carries Dye has only lost 31 yards. Some of that is the pistol. Oregonās offense, duh like everyone, does way better when you donāt have second and long and Dye is very efficient at it. Stats can be skewed, yadda yadda. You canāt ignore that heās been a great recruit for what I assumed was a favor for his brother. If Dye had been gettin Verdellās carries behind in 2018 and 19 I wonder how it would have played out. Someone needs to tell CJ itās okay to not just run straight ahead. You can also not run into the LGs or RGs ass, itās a thing running backs are allowed to do.
There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there.
There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there. Heās played in 32 out of 34 games since his first year. He gets banged up at times but heās a gamer.
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There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there. Heās played in 32 out of 34 games since his first year. He gets banged up at times but heās a gamer. Yeah, he hasn't been in street cloths that often, I'll grant you that. But he's had to sit out entire halves multiple times, or not start, come in for a few carries and clearly not himself, and get pulled. That's happened several times.Like I said, really good back. You don't post back to back 1,000 yard seasons when you're average. It also puts those stats into perspective. What would his numbers be if he didn't miss to so many carries.
There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there. Heās played in 32 out of 34 games since his first year. He gets banged up at times but heās a gamer. Yeah, he hasn't been in street cloths that often, I'll grant you that. But he's had to sit out entire halves multiple times, or not start, come in for a few carries and clearly not himself, and get pulled. That's happened several times.Like I said, really good back. You don't post back to back 1,000 yard seasons when you're average. It also puts those stats into perspective. What would his numbers be if he didn't miss to so many carries. 6.1 YPC
There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there. Heās played in 32 out of 34 games since his first year. He gets banged up at times but heās a gamer. Yeah, he hasn't been in street cloths that often, I'll grant you that. But he's had to sit out entire halves multiple times, or not start, come in for a few carries and clearly not himself, and get pulled. That's happened several times.Like I said, really good back. You don't post back to back 1,000 yard seasons when you're average. It also puts those stats into perspective. What would his numbers be if he didn't miss to so many carries. 6.1 YPC Who? Verdell's career ypc is 5.4 but considering most of those carries came behind arguably the best OL in the nation they get a pretty big asterisk.Verdell's 4.4 this year is probably closer to his true talent level.Good college back. Definitely not great.
There are two things that seem pretty clear to me that are nonetheless debated here: Verdell is a damn good back and Verdell is injury prone and misses time every year. Which puts his stats into an interesting perspective.As I've said before, even though he has the compact build a back needs to handle a lot of carries, the guy runs very hard and takes on collisions that sometimes you think he's be better off avoiding. Specifically he's had shoulder issues and I think in 2020 he got a pretty good concussion or two. Not sure. But there's no doubt that he's missed time every year he's been there. Heās played in 32 out of 34 games since his first year. He gets banged up at times but heās a gamer. Yeah, he hasn't been in street cloths that often, I'll grant you that. But he's had to sit out entire halves multiple times, or not start, come in for a few carries and clearly not himself, and get pulled. That's happened several times.Like I said, really good back. You don't post back to back 1,000 yard seasons when you're average. It also puts those stats into perspective. What would his numbers be if he didn't miss to so many carries. 6.1 YPC Who? Verdell's career ypc is 5.4 but considering most of those carries came behind arguably the best OL in the nation they get a pretty big asterisk.Verdell's 4.4 this year is probably closer to his true talent level.Good college back. Definitely not great. I think that's mostly fair. I'd probably do slightly more than good college back. I'd give him an A-.
1. Terrence Whitehead is the worst. 2. CJ is not awful, but what a sad state of affairs for the conference when this is the most well known RB it has to offer. 3. Byron Marshall drew three years of active roster NFL paychecks and another year of practice squad pay. More than expected for a 5ā9ā back with 4.58 speed. 4. Travis Dye is the best running back on this team. Heās better than Verdell. Six fumbles in 367 touches is shitty. Wear some gloves. He should still be the starter, though. Dye should have been used more this past season. Arroyo had under utilized him, I think Moorhead understands now that consistently CJ can only be counted to run into the backs of the offensive linemen and get injured. Some Travis Dye stats:* 50th ranked RB in the 2018 class, of the 49 ahead of him only Jermar Jefferson has rushed for more yards. It was a shitty year for RBs, but shiniest turd. * Career 5.9 YPC is 7th out of Oregonās top 25 career RB rushers. Top yards per catch out of players who exclusively played RB. * Dye is 14/16 in his career on converting 3rd and 3 or less on runs. That is amazing. Heās also 3/4 on 4th down. Yet they kept running the TD vulture and CJ because everyone is dumb. Maybe the shiftiest back is better than the slow ass and the blind one? Just an idea. * In 2020 Dye carried it 28 times on first down for an average of 9 YPC and a long of only 26. * In 310 carries Dye has only lost 31 yards. Some of that is the pistol. Oregonās offense, duh like everyone, does way better when you donāt have second and long and Dye is very efficient at it. Stats can be skewed, yadda yadda. You canāt ignore that heās been a great recruit for what I assumed was a favor for his brother. If Dye had been gettin Verdellās carries behind in 2018 and 19 I wonder how it would have played out. Someone needs to tell CJ itās okay to not just run straight ahead. You can also not run into the LGs or RGs ass, itās a thing running backs are allowed to do. I prefer backs that donāt fumble
