Oklahoma State University Athletics
Spring Preview: Running Backs
April 12, 2015 | Cowboy Football
April 12, 2015
In a reserve role, Childs has averaged 4.1 yards per carry and has scored four rushing touchdowns in his career. To this point of his career, he has shown a one-cut and get up the field style.
Joining Childs in the mix at tailback are walk-on Raymond Taylor, who logged 18 carries in mop-up duty late in games last year, junior college transfer Todd Mays, who enrolled early in order to compete for the job during spring ball, and Sione Palelei, who showed flashes on the practice field during fall camp last year before sustaining an injury that ended his season.
Mays is the wild card of this bunch. He played quarterback, receiver and running back at East Mississippi CC and starred for a team that posted two consecutive 12-0 seasons and back-to-back NJCAA football national championships.
First-year running backs coach Marcus Arroyo has this pool of players to essentially build a depth chart from scratch, because to this point, nobody has a body of work that clearly stands out from anyone else.
While questions abound at tailback, at fullback, the Cowboys are in the capable hands of senior Jeremy Seaton, who to this point of his career has split action between fullback and tight end. Though he has never rushed the ball as a Cowboy, Seaton has become an effective weapon in the passing game, logging 13 receptions for 162 yards in 2014.
STILLWATER - Perhaps no position group at Oklahoma State offers more question marks than running back, where junior Rennie Childs is the only player who has carried any kind of workload at tailback, but even still, this this the first time in his career that he has been positioned higher than third on the depth chart. In 2013, he was behind Jeremy Smith and Desmond Roland and last year, he was behind Roland and Tyreek Hill, so this is his first real look at being a featured back.
In a reserve role, Childs has averaged 4.1 yards per carry and has scored four rushing touchdowns in his career. To this point of his career, he has shown a one-cut and get up the field style.
Joining Childs in the mix at tailback are walk-on Raymond Taylor, who logged 18 carries in mop-up duty late in games last year, junior college transfer Todd Mays, who enrolled early in order to compete for the job during spring ball, and Sione Palelei, who showed flashes on the practice field during fall camp last year before sustaining an injury that ended his season.
Mays is the wild card of this bunch. He played quarterback, receiver and running back at East Mississippi CC and starred for a team that posted two consecutive 12-0 seasons and back-to-back NJCAA football national championships.
First-year running backs coach Marcus Arroyo has this pool of players to essentially build a depth chart from scratch, because to this point, nobody has a body of work that clearly stands out from anyone else.
While questions abound at tailback, at fullback, the Cowboys are in the capable hands of senior Jeremy Seaton, who to this point of his career has split action between fullback and tight end. Though he has never rushed the ball as a Cowboy, Seaton has become an effective weapon in the passing game, logging 13 receptions for 162 yards in 2014.
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The Bottom Line
The story is yet to be written for Oklahoma State's running backs. This is a position that could still be fluid even into the fall. Rennie Childs is the closest thing to a known commodity. The incoming class of recruits that includes Todd Mays and junior college standout Chris Carson will have a say in what happens here.
The story is yet to be written for Oklahoma State's running backs. This is a position that could still be fluid even into the fall. Rennie Childs is the closest thing to a known commodity. The incoming class of recruits that includes Todd Mays and junior college standout Chris Carson will have a say in what happens here.
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