08-11-2021, 04:13 PM
(08-11-2021, 02:46 PM)gailtate Wrote: Austin Jones is a good running back and, I am sure, a sterling young man. What he is not, at least up until this point, is another Tyler Gaffney.
Well, sure, gailtate, but we're all hoping he is, right?
Putting aside results, here are Gaffney's rushing attempts per game for his four years at Stanford:
2009: 1.8
2010: 6.0
2011: 5.7
2013: 23.6
And here are Jones' rushing attempts per game for his two years at Stanford:
2019: 3.8
2020: 21.0
Keeping in mind that Gaffney played 14 games in 2013 and Jones played only 6 in 2020, it's not unreasonable to expect that Jones' workload in 2021 will be 2013 Gaffney-esque. We'll see if his body can handle the punishment and if he can improve his ypc to 5.0 or better.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)