09-12-2018, 08:45 PM
I also wondered, even before the season began, about the news that Love had put on some weight.
I was reminded of Darrin Nelson who sat out a year after his sophomore season rehabbing an injury and came back considerably stronger and more muscular than when he left. It was an obvious effort to get himself ready for the NFL, since his lighter "scatback" style of running was apparently not going to transfer well to the pros. But I thought he was less effective when he came back--many fewer of those amazing change-of-direction plays, although he could pound it up the middle a little better than before. His average, however, went down, and a lot of fans thought he was never quite the same as his first two seasons.
I was reminded of Darrin Nelson who sat out a year after his sophomore season rehabbing an injury and came back considerably stronger and more muscular than when he left. It was an obvious effort to get himself ready for the NFL, since his lighter "scatback" style of running was apparently not going to transfer well to the pros. But I thought he was less effective when he came back--many fewer of those amazing change-of-direction plays, although he could pound it up the middle a little better than before. His average, however, went down, and a lot of fans thought he was never quite the same as his first two seasons.