re: With J. Williams out, Collins has big opportunity

What we're going to miss in J-Will is all those 2nd and 3rd effort yards. He consistently picked up more yards where most backs would have been tackled or given up. He had power, he had moves, he had speed - a truly complete back that I don't think any of our backs match. Collins is great, but I've always thought J-Will was a little better.

I was talking about the Wisconsin guys, brochacho. I know what the Arkansas guys did.

Wisconsin has had a ridiculous history with great RBs post Barry Alvarez.

1000-yard rushers at Wisconsin since 1990 (25 seasons)
1990 - none
1991 - none
1992 - none
1993 - Brent Moss
1994 - Terrell Fletcher
1995 - Carl McCullough
1996 - Ron Dayne
1997 - Ron Dayne
1998 - Ron Dayne
1999 - Ron Dayne
2000 - Michael Bennett
2001 - Anthony Davis
2002 - Anthony Davis
2003 - none
2004 - none
2005 - Brian Calhoun
2006 - PJ Hill
2007 - PJ Hill
2008 - PJ Hill
2009 - John Clay
2010 - John Clay, James White
2011 - Montee Ball
2012 - Montee Ball
2013 - Melvin Gordon, James White
2014 - Melvin Gordon

A lot of those guys went for 1500+ as well.

Hell, three or four went for 2000+.

well either way I appreciate the leg work you are doing. for everyone freaking out, some people even being fans of other teams know that CBB has a history of productive running backs and has had multiple 1k rushers multiple times. we are all sad, including some opposing fans, to see Jwill go down. But the fact of the matter is arkansas will keep churning on and will still be good but could have been better. next man up.

Arkansas has lost two big RBs to knee injuries late in the offseason recently: Knile Davis in 2011 and Johnathan Williams in 2015.

The way Davis closed the 2010 season was very impressive, 1028 yards and 12 TDs in seven games.

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How many snaps per game will he be getting and who will be his back up?

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I think Rawleigh Williams will share the most carries and hopefully he gets a lot. I'm sure Collins will get more, and that Bielema will use this as an opportunity to showcase Collins, but I hope he's limited to 275 or less. We need 2 good RB's, so someone needs to step up.

Half of Williams and Collins yards came in OOC games. It would be shocking if Collins got very many extra carries against OOC teams. If anything you would think Bert would save him for conference play if he was smart. I would be shocked if Collins got more then 1300 yards this year.

Gonna be a season of what ifs without jwill playing. Alex Collins has yet to live up to expectations. Keeping my fingers cross, but the butt hurt has commenced...

5th year Jr 255 lb Kody Walker and Fr Rawleigh Williams III[RWIII] will now get JWill's carries and Damon Mitchell [Duwop] will probably get some of JWill's screen, sweeps, draws, and back in flats passes. A lot others but those will get most if not all of JWill's carries and Collins will get 5 to 10 more carries sometimes, but CBB won't over use him and save him for the end of the games and season, when the Hogs run and run the clock out.