Heisman Watch: LSU RB Leonard Fournette: Fournette now has 631
rushing yards through the first three games, the most by an FBS rusher over the last 15 years (via ESPN Stats and Info)
Tennessee had 138 rushing yards on 26 attempts in the first half this season (Denver had 12
rushing yards through the first two quarters).
Not exact matches
Moore has struggled
through the draft process, but with an aging linebacker core, the Steelers will take the best pass
rusher left on the board and be happy for his poor Combine performance (4.95 40 —
yard dash & 12 reps on bench).
Halfway
through this season he has
rushed for more
yards than Eric Dickerson had at the same point during his record - setting year.
The Broncos mustered just 15
rushing yards, and the return of starting quarterback Brett Rypien from a head injury he suffered in a heartbreaking loss to Washington State did not lend the offense much more consistency
through the air.
Through three games Jackson ranks third in the nation in yards per pass attempted (11.1) and No. 5 in yards per rush (9.5), while his 18 TDs through the team's first three games ties the
Through three games Jackson ranks third in the nation in
yards per pass attempted (11.1) and No. 5 in
yards per
rush (9.5), while his 18 TDs
through the team's first three games ties the
through the team's first three games ties the record.
The Aggies had no answer for the LSU
rushing attack, which racked up 326
yards and over six
yards a pop in the win and helped LSU keep the game firmly in its pocket the entire way
through.
The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going
through... Returned to the team at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away from any physical activity, he ran for 179
yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back,
rushing for 332
yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.
Through five games he has a 58.8 % completion rate, thrown for 1,154
yards, 4 touchdowns, 5 interceptions,
rushed for 209
yards, 3 touchdowns and 5 fumbles.
Hopefully we could address that in picks # 2
through 4, Dallas's Oline produced consecutive RB's that led the league in
rushing — by 500
yards more than # 2 in 2015 and 2016, with a rookie in 2016.
Through his first five games of 2017, he's
rushed for 270
yards and eight touchdowns.
Yesterday, I was going
through the stats on our D and saw that we allowed 5 300
yard passers and also 5 100
yard rushers, including Jeremy Hill in both games against the Bengals - our D needs are big.
From 1995
through 1998, the speedy back raised the profile of UNH football as he
rushed for what was then an FCS record 6,193
yards.
And Petty was good, but decidedly not great,
through the air, completing just 50 percent of his passes and making it easy to discredit a 204 -
yard, three - touchdown performance for voters too busy or lazy to find the box score and his two
rushing touchdowns.
Anderson's line may not have been the best by an FCS player this past weekend (Eastern Washington's Vernon Adams was 16 - for - 18 for 300
yards and four touchdowns, and added 76
yards and a score on the ground; Howard's Greg McGhee had 326 passing
yards and two touchdowns
through the air, and 142
rushing yards and two touchdowns on the ground), but it was the most important.
As tends to be the case for most freshmen, it has taken him a while to find his legs at the college level —
through five games, he had
rushed 24 times for 128
yards (5.3 per carry), neither great nor terrible.
That might help explain why Turner, his team trailing 10 - 7 and facing a fourth - and - four at the Carolina 35 midway
through the second quarter, elected to go for it — and watched in frustration as defensive tackle Eric Swann's bull
rush forced Johnson to dump a pass to fullback Larry Centers, who was dropped for a one -
yard loss.
In 2008, the Cowboys broke
through with nine wins and a No. 16 AP finish, and they did so by averaging 245
rushing yards per game, eighth in the country.
Box Score Hero: Jensen came
through for the Bison offense when they needed it most, and he finished the night 9 - for - 19 for 76
yards and with 88
yards rushing.
Collins leads the team with 1,297
yards rushing through eight games, picking up the majority of those
yards (1,150) and 16 of his 17
rushing TDs over the last six games for the undefeated Pacers.