OTish: Thomas Rawls: 27 carries, 161 yards, 1 TD

Submitted by westwardwolverine on January 7th, 2017 at 11:13 PM

Heh.

Never stops being funny.

Edit: Sounds like its a Seahawks record.

January 8th, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^

In other NFL playoff news, Connor Cook was 18/45 for 150 yards with1 TD and 3 INTs for the Raiders today That's completing passes at a 40% clip my friends. HA!

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CoverZero

January 8th, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^

The Russians Hacked Thomas Rawl's legs... just like they Hacked Tom Brady's footballs.

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BLHoke

January 8th, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^

Thomas Rawls Freshman season coincided with Michigan's entire offense behind built around Denard Robinson... Especially the run game. During his Sophomore season, where he received his best opportunity to make an impression, he averaged a whopping 4.2 YPC with a season high of 73 yards (woohoo!). Maybe had he made more of an impression in that time, or Michigan hadn't landed the #1 RB in the class (you almost HAVE to see if those kids can pan out) he may have usurped Fitz and Smith respectively. Also, those 2 backs were upperclassmen and had value in pass pro, which was hugely important to Michigan's offense, as they couldn't run the ball, played from behind a lot, and had a QB running for his life.

Revisionist history be damned... Thomas Rawls wasn't Tom Brady standing on the sideline holding a clipboard. He was a player that had some untapped potential that rarely, if ever showed any of it in the opportunities he was given for the Wolverines. Would've been sweet if he was really that guy we all saw tonight... But alas, he was never anywhere close. So need to wonder "What if?" or add another failure onto the Hoke regime's shoulders.

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BLHoke

January 8th, 2017 at 12:50 AM ^

With Smith, I didn't mean he was an upperclassman in relation to Rawls... Just that that's why he stayed on the field as an upperclassman. Pass Pro mainly. Otherwise you'd think they'd roll a more dynamic receiving/3rd down back on out there.

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Yeoman

January 8th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^

He had that one garbage-time 68-yard TD against Illinois that made the score 45-0, and he'd had a few decent runs against UMass and in garbage time against Purdue.

Then he got some run with the starters down the stretch, and in those last four games he managed 68 yards on 32 carries. Toussaint had 34 carries in those games and gained 193.

Why people now think Rawls was poised for a move up the depth chart, I have no idea. They weren't saying that at the time; Brian's exit post for Rawls was a snark at Fred Jackson for hyping a generic three-star talent. There was no dissent; even the O.P. called it "good attrition."

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Night_King

January 8th, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^

Every Lions fan kept mentioning how weak the Seahawks offensive line and running game in general has been all season. Then they come out tonight and absolutely dominate the Lions front seven. I couldn't believe it. Frustrating game to watch as always.

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Jack Hammer

January 8th, 2017 at 1:32 AM ^

RRRRRAAAAAWWWWLLLSSSSSS!!!!!

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MichiganMan20

January 8th, 2017 at 2:58 AM ^

Dude played like a fucking super saiyan tonight

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MGoBlueNY

January 8th, 2017 at 6:42 AM ^

where were the rawls posts last week when he went for an awesome 8 rushes for 14 yards? or the week before when he went for 8 rushes for 8 yards? or the week before that when he had 21 rushes for 34 yards?

that is a total of 37 rushes for 56 yards. stop acting like he goes over 100 every week. fact is last night was only his 2nd game over 100 all year. he is an average nfl back.

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drewro02

January 8th, 2017 at 7:47 AM ^

Who looked like he had zero chance of an NFL career while at Michigan..

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DairyQueen

January 8th, 2017 at 12:05 PM ^

The problem is simplistic reasoning.

College Production =/= NFL Production.

Personnel matters, but scheme matters more.

Hoke & Co. wanted to do what Hoke & Co. wanted to do, to horrific results.

It's anyone's guess if/how they were bad practice coaches, bad in-game coaches, bad play-schemers, bad talent & placement coaches, bad character developers, and/or bad playcallers. Bottom line, they stunk, badly.

Rawls' being talented and also being 4th on the depth chart are not mutually exclusive. For the scheme they ran, he very well could have been the 4th best performing back.

Scheme makes that much of a difference.

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