Jaxpo

March 4th, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^

He seems to run standing straight up when going through the line. If he does that in college he will get killed. Especially in a manball offense.

jmdblue

March 4th, 2015 at 8:52 AM ^

Also seems like he ran through giant holes and was 20 pounds heavier than the kids in the d-backfield that were the defacto first line of defense against him.   Damn it would be hard to evaluate these kids.  

Space Coyote

March 4th, 2015 at 9:01 AM ^

He has very good feet at this stage. Gets them up and down very quickly and that really helps him pick through traffic and make some nice cuts (and avoid arm tackles). A bit in the same mold as Higdon. Doesn't have very good top level speed, and takes time to get up to it. He's going to struggle breaking long runs and getting to the outside at the next level, and that mitigates some of the footwork he brings to the table because his threat of breaking it outside is decreased.

He also has the body to add weight and be a powerful runner, but he currently runs really high (not just high, but straight up and down essentially), similar to Darren McFadden, but he isn't a freak of nature athlete, so he'll have to learn to run behind his shoulder pads better.

HANCOCK

March 4th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^

Kid looks like a stud, but the competition level looks pretty bad too.

 

He is great in the open field in that film. Good vision, good feet. Strong, fast. 

 

I'd wanna see him do it against some real competition though. As jmdblue said above, its gotta be hard to evaluate these kids.

LSAClassOf2000

March 4th, 2015 at 9:28 AM ^

Per Rivals, it looks like he's currently got offers from Boston College, Colorado, Colorado State, Duke, Houston, Iowa State, New Mexico, Oregon State, SMU and West Virginia. When you match that with the Hudl footage, you have to wonder why some of the schools on his "interest" list haven't offered (LSU, Nebraska, Auburn, among others), because the film is very impressive.