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With the injury-prone nature of the position you try to get a good RB every year. Like any HS player, they may be great or may be a bust, so the percentages are better by taking one every year...the best available.

^^^^^This^^^^^^

The backs we have are serviceable, but none of them is a threat to take any carry to the house.

I think Watson could take it to the house and if Neal wouldn't go down when somebody got close to him I think he could too

Kind of the thing, the more you look, the more you find. I guess with the needs on D and OLine, the amount of effort we are putting toward RB confuses me... but you all bring great points.

I think the point of getting good quality RBs every year is crucial and while we've been getting average backs in the past 5 years the matter of fact is we've yet to have a Gurley, Marshall, Richardson, Lacy, Lattimore, Yeldon, etc. and having a game changer at RB can make a bif difference rather quickly, and in the last 5-7 years UT has lacked that.

The alternative is to be like LSU and have a solid platoon of four and five stars that consistently rotate. And bama does this to some extent but they've typically been using a two studded heisman rotation. One prepping the other for a heisman run.

Man I wish that was our complaint... We need to pull a game changer at RB, plain and simple.