Did Kevin Grady fall off the face of the earth??

Submitted by victors2000 on
I haven't heard a peep about him, he's still on the team, isn't he? Aside from his 'issue' from a couple months back, I felt he was going to have a good year for us; has anyone heard anything about him? This may be a case of no news is good news :)
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Thorin

August 13th, 2009 at 6:47 AM ^

I'm only speculating but it may have something to do with him fumbling all the time and generally not living up to his 5 star hype his first 3 years.

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Sommy

August 13th, 2009 at 12:37 PM ^

It's been said on the board before, but Grady's fumbling is completely overplayed, especially when you look at the stats. Minor has fumbled quite a bit more than Grady -- it just so happens that most of Grady's fumbles came his freshman year, and they were very timely fumbles, at that.

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jg2112

August 13th, 2009 at 6:53 AM ^

are that he's playing well. He will likely mix in with Moundros, and maybe play short yardage. And let me say that I'm personally happy that I'm not hearing anything about Grady right now. That guy's created enough headlines for a while.

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jtmc33

August 13th, 2009 at 9:37 AM ^

I expect Keven Grady's stats for each game to look something like this: 4 rushes - 11 yards - 1 td. 0 FUMBLES Moundros will be the every-down FB for blocking and maybe a catch here and there. Grady will be used as a battering ram on short yardage.

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jmblue

August 13th, 2009 at 1:40 PM ^

He's not going to score a TD a game. In fact, he may not see the field much at all. If you look back at last year, he really only was the short-yardage back in the first half of the season, when Minor was banged up. When Minor got healthy, he got the short-yardage carries.

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a2tarheel

August 13th, 2009 at 7:11 AM ^

I still can't believe that the major recruiting service had him ranked about as high as Darren McFaddon. Imagine if he had lived up to the hype...

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mgovictors23

August 13th, 2009 at 10:03 AM ^

I can't believe that Rivals had this guy as a five star coming out of high school. His freshman year was impressive to me but ever since then he has been in the headlines for all the wrong things.

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ATX Wolverine

August 13th, 2009 at 10:14 AM ^

Why would his college performance have an impact on his ranking was coming out of high school? Rivals assessed what he did in high school relative to the other running backs in that year's class and determined he was worthy of five stars. Clearly, some five-stars don't pan out (close to 65% per the analysis Brian linked to the other day), but to look back and say this guy should never have been a five-star is silly.

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