Is this age of additional meaningless games, filled with the likes of Charleston Southern, the only metric that makes any sense for judging running backs - across all generations - is YARDS PER CARRY.
Henry is #34 this year in ypc. THIRTYFOUR. That's the bottom of the top quartile for RBs.
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/907
The now largely dismissed Fournette averaged 6.42 ypc - with over half a yard more per carry than Henry at 5.86. Perrine has better as well at 6.12.
Everyone keeps yacking up Henry's overall yardage and TDs, but that came at a whopping 338 carries. The argument that he was the only weapon holds true (if not moreso) for LSU, but Fornette had more than 50 fewer carries (that's practically 2 games for most feature backs; Fournette had 271 carries).
Saban fed Henry that much to get a Heisman, pure and simple (a nice consolation bone to throw to the fans if Bama doesn't pan out in the playoffs). And when Henry burns out sooner than later in the NFL due to all of this premature mileage, he can thank good 'ol Nick.
I wish the Heisman votes weren't so stupid....
Henry is #34 this year in ypc. THIRTYFOUR. That's the bottom of the top quartile for RBs.
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/907
The now largely dismissed Fournette averaged 6.42 ypc - with over half a yard more per carry than Henry at 5.86. Perrine has better as well at 6.12.
Everyone keeps yacking up Henry's overall yardage and TDs, but that came at a whopping 338 carries. The argument that he was the only weapon holds true (if not moreso) for LSU, but Fornette had more than 50 fewer carries (that's practically 2 games for most feature backs; Fournette had 271 carries).
Saban fed Henry that much to get a Heisman, pure and simple (a nice consolation bone to throw to the fans if Bama doesn't pan out in the playoffs). And when Henry burns out sooner than later in the NFL due to all of this premature mileage, he can thank good 'ol Nick.
I wish the Heisman votes weren't so stupid....
