Saw limited time as a junior due to nagging knee injuries ... comes from an NFL family with two older brothers seeing action on Sundays ... running ability blossomed in JC ranks after serving as a blocking back in high school ... finished spring ball at 100 percent physically but has to show he can take the pounding of 12-game season. 2000: Finished No. 3 on the team with 187 rushing yards ... missed more than a month of the season with a nagging knee injury ... career-high 71 yards on 15 carries versus Kentucky including a touchdown in his Division I debut ... team-high 11 carries versus Connecticut for 41 yards ... totaled 24 yards and a touchdown versus UAB ... accounted for just 18 yards over the final seven weeks of the season missing action in four of those contests. Junior College and High School: Rushed for 1,090 yards on 171 carries in a rotating backfield for Hancock College ... named an all-Western States Conference honoree ... all-Region III selection ... Gridwire honorable mention All-America choice ... rushed for 198 yards in the California JC state title game ... ran for 560 yards as a freshman at Hancock ... older brother Tim was a standout at Eastern Kentucky and played professionally with the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers ... older brother Fred spent three years in NFL with Jets, Bucs and Falcons ... primarily a blocking back at Miami's Southridge High School ... ran for 400 yards out of a wing-T alignment ... earned a pair of letters in his prep days on the gridiron ... selected U of L over Missouri and Texas A&M. Personal: Sociology major ... born Dec. 23, 1979.
Rushing att yds avg td long 2000 52 187 3.6 2 17 |
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