How will the depth chart look next season at RB?

[Al_4_State]

If Nealy is more explosive in space than some of those WRs, I'd bet good money he sees the field at the position a ton this fall.

[Tre4ISU]

All of my credits.

So basically nothing.

I'd bet that BOTH Nealy and Standard redshirt. Hollis had a lot of good reports and was basically neck and neck with Shontrelle as to who played and who redshirted this past fall. He's going to be a solid backup. And there's still James White, who a lot of people (including ARob) were high on. The only way I see either of the true freshmen playing is if Nealy proves to be too big of a threat catching the ball out of the backfield to sit. But, I think that Shontrelle catches the ball just fine and we'll have slot WRs like West, Young, Gary and Horne to make plays in space.

My guess at the backfield carries:

Shontrelle 60%
Woody 20%
Hollis 15%
White 5%

I would bet Nealy won't redshirt. I bet we see him out as a receiver. I think he's too talented to keep off the field.

[bosco]

I think it'll be more of the type of situation on who is getting the carries. We'll see Woody in the same capacity as we did last year. He'll be the hammer. Short yardage and a change of pace back. SJ will get his carries but If Hollis can catch and block then I see him like a third down back. White who is most similar to SJ will back him up.

[volfaniniowa]

Just looking at the guys we have, I kind of think Hollis will see quite a few carries. Shontrelle isn't built to be an every down back, and Woody is at his best once we have the defense a little tired. He just hits 'em in the mouth. White might be able to give a few carries a game too. He seems to have some speedy and elusiveness.

From what I've gathered, Hollis somewhere in between those 2. I think Standard redshirts and most of the carries are split between Johnson, Woody, and Hollis.

I think Nealy plays a ton as a slot WR. Maybe Herman will add some jet sweeps to the playbook and we see him run the ball that way, with him hopefully being capable of taking a 10 yard screen to the house.

ISU wr's don't take screen passes 10 yards let alone to the house. Baby steps, baby steps.

[ISU_Alum_2000]

There isn't a RB on any team anywhere, outside of Pop Warner, that takes 95% of a team's carries. They would be beaten to a pulp by mid-season.

My guess is:

50% - Johnson
25% - Woody
25% - Other

[cyguytillidie]

I see Woody as a short yardage, 4th quarter back. Nealy gets a couple carries here and there. Shontrelle gets pretty much everything else. Standard RS.

[AlleyAddict]

ISU wr's don't take screen passes 10 yards let alone to the house. Baby steps, baby steps.

Just curious, why is a Vol fan on CF? Have our schools ever played each other in anything? (If they have, be gentle, I'm probably not old enough to remember it.)

[CarolinaCy]

How much do you want to bet Shontrelle doesn't sniff 75% of the carries?

All of my credits.

Here was the breakdown for the 2010 season, total of 289 carries by the RB position:

Robinson: 202 carries (69.9%)
Johnson: 35 carries (12.1%)
Woody: 47 carries (16.3)
White: 5 carries (1.7%)

A Rob was by far and away the #1 back last fall and didn't get 70% of the carries. I think it's pretty safe to say that no one RB will get 75% of the carries this fall.

[Al_4_State]

ISU wr's don't take screen passes 10 yards let alone to the house. Baby steps, baby steps.

Touche.

Just curious, why is a Vol fan on CF? Have our schools ever played each other in anything? (If they have, be gentle, I'm probably not old enough to remember it.)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he's a Tennessee native living in Iowa who has taken an interest in the local teams. He's probably taken an interest in ISU because Iowa fans rubbed him the wrong way (just guessing here, I know of a few folks who move to Iowa and end up pulling for ISU just by default of being annoyed by Hawk fans).

[CycloneJames]

Here was the breakdown for the 2010 season, total of 289 carries by the RB position:

Robinson: 202 carries (69.9%)
Johnson: 35 carries (12.1%)
Woody: 47 carries (16.3)
White: 5 carries (1.7%)

A Rob was by far and away the #1 back last fall and didn't get 70% of the carries. I think it's pretty safe to say that no one RB will get 75% of the carries this fall.

To add to your post, Arnaud had 103 attempts and Tiller had 42. Depending on who ends up starting at QB, its possible there is another 50-100 additional carries in there for RB's. I would agree that its not likely one back gets 70% of the carries (unless someone has a break out year...which I would be fine with).

[HFCS]

Touche.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he's a Tennessee native living in Iowa who has taken an interest in the local teams. He's probably taken an interest in ISU because Iowa fans rubbed him the wrong way (just guessing here, I know of a few folks who move to Iowa and end up pulling for ISU just by default of being annoyed by Hawk fans).

Guessing you're right. I've been in Chicago a decade now and can never quite fully get on the Bears bandwagon (even with their cakewalk to a superbowl) because too many of their fans really are the SNL skit. Whenever they talk about a second NFL team in the west burbs (Bears tickets are ridiculous so it could happen) I can feel they'd easily be my other football team besides the Clones.

Also look at any of the Iowa sports media personalities from out of state. They're all pretty neutral (Murphy), attack everybody (MP) or ISU leaning (KM). It's the Iowa born media who are all Hawkeyes, all the time.

[theyork]

I'm starting to wonder how the depth chart will look next season at RB. I read the following article about Standard:
Area's top prep rushers run from Mizzou's style
and I cannot wait to see the kid play in Ames. My question is do they red shirt him, I dont think so? Where does Duran Hollis fit in? What about James White? Is there any chance Nealy gets a look? In my 28 years of being an ISU fan I dont remember ever seeing this much SOLID depth at RB, I am truly amazed by what this staff has been able to do at RB.

remember when we signed

brandon gunn
greg coleman
jason scales
tyease thompson

and everyone on message boards what talking about how great a stable of runningbacks we were going to have? remember how that turned out?

i make it a rule not to get ahead of myself (in terms of excitement) until a player has actually done something on the field. to date shontrelle has done very little and woody has done even less...and that's it. there is still a lot to prove by nearly all of our RB's.

not saying they won't pan out and be great, but there are a LOT of absurdly bold claims as to how good our RB's are when they haven't done much of anything yet.

[Frak]

So basically nothing.



I would bet Nealy won't redshirt. I bet we see him out as a receiver. I think he's too talented to keep off the field.

We'll see. Just looking at what they'll have to play with, Nealy is not going to take carries away from SJ or Woody. He may be able to play ahead of Hollis and White, but that's up for debate. At WR, is Nealy going to be a better WR in the slot than Jarvis West? Aaron Horne?

I hope that he redshirts. I think that he's going to be a good player for us, but as a TRFR, I don't know that he offers a bunch over the players ahead of him.

[theyork]

Adam Robinson would be third or fourth string on our team

this is simply absurd

[Iastfan112]

Here was the breakdown for the 2010 season, total of 289 carries by the RB position:

Robinson: 202 carries (69.9%)
Johnson: 35 carries (12.1%)
Woody: 47 carries (16.3)
White: 5 carries (1.7%)

A Rob was by far and away the #1 back last fall and didn't get 70% of the carries. I think it's pretty safe to say that no one RB will get 75% of the carries this fall.

If Robinson didn't injury issues during the season I think he would have surpassed the 75% mark though.