Richard Young needs more carries

short legs and not a whole lot of break away speed from my view on the couch. A great RB for sure but not better than the two ahead of him

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We need more/better production from the RBs. Maybe getting Young some carries might help?

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Go back and watch the USC or Tennessee games.

Focus on the read option plays.

Pause the feed at the point where Milroe makes his read and tell me whether you think Miller and Haynes get the ball when they’re supposed to based on what the defender is doing.

IMO they’re being put in poor situations because Milroe either doesn’t know or he doesn’t care how the defense plays the option.

His athleticism is such that he can often beat a defender to an edge or seam, but it’s usually not because he’s taking advantage of a schematic advantage. It reminds me of watching pop Warner football where one team has the super fast RB who just beats everyone to the edge and scores every couple plays.

To me it was part of what made things so hard on LSU. They were outmatched in the front seven and instead of going heavy read option we just went power designed QB run and used the RBs as FBs. This let Milroe skip the hesitation and decision making involved with the option, plant and go.

Two weeks ago my buddy said i need to start looking for Richard Young.

He thinks he gonna be a beast. Not the fastest open field guy but a damn hard runner with the right twitch/strength ratio.

I believe he was hurt early on, but is now healthy.

To follow up on this post, I would love to see Jam Miller and Richard Young get more carries going forward. Haynes has not been overly impressive to this point. His one highlight was the run against Missouri.

Agreed. I’m also surprised that the staff hasn’t used Kendrick Law more. I also liked the burst that I saw from Kevin Riley yesterday.

Young is gonna be a good one. He runs like it’s the last carry he’ll ever get. Reminds me of Cadillac in that way.

Agreed. It’s mystifying as to how he isn’t getting more touches.

Odom caught two in the game yesterday.

The problem is getting the ball to Law more is that would usually mean Ryan Williams blocking for him. That's not as effective as having Law block for Williams.

Law dropped a pass thrown right to him against LSU. I think that he needs to be used more on speed sweeps and direct hand offs.