Football
A Look at Freshmen Running Back Production Under Mike Gundy
With the news that Justice Hill could legitimately start coming out recently, we have been thinking a lot about how this running back situation is going to play out this season. Apparently a lot of you have as well. Reader Jon Jester sent me a terrific email breaking down all the freshman RBs who have played in recent memory. Here’s his email with commentary and a pretty chart.
You guys keep the great emails coming!
I promise I think about more than just the RB mayhem in Stillwater, but i found some stats on former freshman RBs at OSU in recent years and felt like I would pass them on. I guess our ultimate question is: Where will Justice Hill fit into this a year from now?
RB – Year | Carries | Yards | AVG | TDs | Receptions | Rec Yds | Rec TD |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeff Carr – 2015 | 36 | 142 | 3.9 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 2 |
Rennie Childs – 2013 | 41 | 189 | 4.6 | 1 | 4 | 49 | 0 |
Corey Bennett – 2012 | 12 | 91 | 7.6 | 1 | – | – | – |
Caleb Muncrief – 2012 | 14 | 57 | 4.1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Joe Aska – 2011 | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | 0 | – | – | – |
Desmond Roland – 2011 | 17 | 95 | 5.6 | 0 | – | – | – |
Herschel Sims – 2011 | 31 | 242 | 7.8 | 2 | 1 | -1 | – |
Joseph Randle – 2010 | 82 | 452 | 5.5 | 2 | 37 | 427 | 1 |
Jeremy Smith – 2009 | 15 | 160 | 10.7 | 1 | – | – | – |
Michael Roberts – 2008 | 15 | 42 | 2.8 | 0 | – | – | – |
Kendall Hunter – 2007 | 107 | 696 | 6.5 | 4 | 10 | 137 | 1 |
Keith Toston – 2006 | 106 | 631 | 6.0 | 6 | 10 | 92 | 2 |
Julius Crosslin – 2004 | 17 | 71 | 4.2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 0 |
*Ed. note: Chart has been updated to reflect the fact that Dantrell Savage and Beau Johnson were not freshmen. I have added in Herschel Sims and Caleb Muncrief. Apologies for the mistake earlier. You can check it against all the RBs from the Mike Gundy era here.
A few thoughts on this.
• Can you imagine a freshman and a juco transfer getting 100+ carries in the same season like what happened in 2006 with Toston and Savage? Holy smokes, OSU has come a long way in just a decade.
• I’ve thought following their freshman years, respectively, that Carr and Childs had great years as freshman, and then I look at what Hunter/Toston/Randle did and I get all nostalgic about feeling what that was like to have a freshman have a season like that and know that we have three more years of that dude running the football for us.
• Modern day OSU RBs have to wait for their shot behind the older guys which can be a good thing because it shows progression from guys that have been in the system (right?)
• Joe Randle with almost equal totals of rushing and receiving yards, but he had 50 less receptions than carries. HB slip screen in its heyday.
• Jeff Carr got in the end zone the most as a freshman RB since… Joe Randle.
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