Kaufman highlights

Lawyer Milloy & Kaufman are my favorite huskies of all time.

Kaufman and gaskin are listed as the same measurables. Kaufman was benching 400 lbs as a senior not a freshman. Kaufman was a freak no question, his father was a body builder. A rare talent.

Gaskin is the first true freshman to rush for three straight 100 yard games and did it against Stanford, USC and Oregon.

Gaskin is averaging 5.5 yards per carry behind an oline made up of freshman.

Kaufman and gaskin have similar footwork and cutting ability. As someone pointed out gaskin is more of a lateral runner because he has to find holes and he is young. Kaufman did some of that as a true freshman.

Kaufman as freshman ran behind malimala, Kennedy, and Cunningham... he had holes the size of 747's. He had very good lines his whole career and an exceptional blocking fullback in Richard Thomas.

Gaskin already has 748 yards on the year and had minimal carries early in the season. He will be a 1000 yard back this year and no true freshman has ever done that.

If gaskin had wide open holes to run through and just ran straight you would probably see the similarities for the untrained eye.

Are they identical? No. similar? Yes.
Just watch their feet.

Pressing?

Gaskin is having a year never seen at Washington behind a porous oline.

What if runs for 1300 yards this year?

RoadDawg55 said:

The NFL shouldn't matter on this, but Corey Dillon was a Pro Bowl RB for the Bengals. They were the worst team in the NFL when he played. If he was on a good team he would be a Hall of Famer.

Dillon once held the record for most rushing yards in an NFL game. Nuff said on that.

Dillon is the best rb in husky history.... no question.

dnc said:

jecornel said:

Lawyer Milloy & Kaufman are my favorite huskies of all time.

Kaufman and gaskin are listed as the same measurables. Kaufman was benching 400 lbs as a senior not a freshman. Kaufman was a freak no question, his father was a body builder. A rare talent.

Gaskin is the first true freshman to rush for three straight 100 yard games and did it against Stanford, USC and Oregon.

Gaskin is averaging 5.5 yards per carry behind an oline made up of freshman.

Kaufman and gaskin have similar footwork and cutting ability. As someone pointed out gaskin is more of a lateral runner because he has to find holes and he is young. Kaufman did some of that as a true freshman.

Kaufman as freshman ran behind malimala, Kennedy, and Cunningham... he had holes the size of 747's. He had very good lines his whole career and an exceptional blocking fullback in Richard Thomas.

Gaskin already has 748 yards on the year and had minimal carries early in the season. He will be a 1000 yard back this year and no true freshman has ever done that.

If gaskin had wide open holes to run through and just ran straight you would probably see the similarities for the untrained eye.

Are they identical? No. similar? Yes.
Just watch their feet.

They're not similar at all. Kauffman was explosive, a force of nature. He wasn't Dwayne Washington or @GrandpaSankey but he didn't have the greatest vision ever. What he did have was the ability to run by you and just destroy arm tackles because of his freakish upper body strength. Early on he was too fast for his own good, as he didn't have great balance, especially as a freshman. Nor was he particularly patient.

Gaskin has terrific vision, patience, and balance. He jukes people out of his shoes thanks to great hips (hi @IrishDawg22), not great explosiveness. As a true frosh Gaskin is a better RB than Kauffman was. He doesn't have Nip's ceiling though. No chance Gaskin's a first round pick.

Gaskin and Kauffman just don't have a similar skillset. Virtually every strength of Gaskin was a relative weakness of Kauffman and vice versa.

Vision - Gaskin great, Kauffman average
Balance - Gaskin great, Kauffman above average (below average as a frosh)
Straight ahead speed - Gaskin above average, Kauffman elite
Strength - Gaskin above average for his size, Kauffman elite for his size

They're just not that similar, no matter how bad you want them to be.

I don't want them to be similar, I just look at their footwork and the insights of greg Lewis.

This oline is not even in the same universe as the lines in the early 90's.

550 yards is a stretch but 400 yards is possible with asu, OSU and WSU left.

You can't say for certainty he won't be a first round back.