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Another philosophical question... If a freshman RB is super productive as a 4.3 sprinter, then does his bulking up in the weight room makes sense?
 
Lazy Dave said:
He's stiff. No bend. No lean. He doesn't fall forward. He isn't shifty nor does he break tackles.

When he is on, he's smooth, fast, and makes you think "if he just puts it all together" he'd be excellent.

When he isn't, you wish they would give his carries to Kaytron.
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Yeah. His straight line speed is fast, but he doesn’t have much wiggle. I don’t think his vision is the best either.
 
jjw165 said:
Yeah. His straight line speed is fast, but he doesn’t have much wiggle. I don’t think his vision is the best either.
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At this point in his career, work on his detecting a seam and sprinting through it. Gaining five yards is better than looking for something big and gaining one yard doing it.
 
Frank Lee said:
Another philosophical question... If a freshman RB is super productive as a 4.3 sprinter, then does his bulking up in the weight room makes sense?
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Singleton was advanced in the weight room before he got to PSU. He was close to 3rd year Barkley his first spring camp as far as the weight training goes.

As for rhetorical, sure. In theory, getting faster and stronger is never a bad thing necessarily.

It's just that Singleton seems to lack a lot of the qualities that make a RB great. To be so strong, he doesn't run tough nor break tackles (Saquon didn't either per say). Vision is lacking. No shift, no juke. He kinda jogs until he sees something. When he sees it, or the line executes, it's beautiful. He hits a hole or turns a corner anddddd...he gone!

When he doesn't, he tends to get tackled or tripped up by the first man. He runs into his blocking.

Go back and watch his TD. On first glance, I thought it was an impressive run. Pistol, downhill, OL washes everything to the right and Nick goes to daylight. But as soon as he speeds up, he tripped himself up and had to dive into the end zone.
 
Lazy Dave said:
Singleton was advanced in the weight room before he got to PSU. He was close to 3rd year Barkley his first spring camp as far as the weight training goes.

As for rhetorical, sure. In theory, getting faster and stronger is never a bad thing necessarily.

It's just that Singleton seems to lack a lot of the qualities that make a RB great. To be so strong, he doesn't run tough nor break tackles (Saquon didn't either per say). Vision is lacking. No shift, no juke. He kinda jogs until he sees something. When he sees it, or the line executes, it's beautiful. He hits a hole or turns a corner anddddd...he gone!

When he doesn't, he tends to get tackled or tripped up by the first man. He runs into his blocking.

Go back and watch his TD. On first glance, I thought it was an impressive run. Pistol, downhill, OL washes everything to the right and Nick goes to daylight. But as soon as he speeds up, he tripped himself up and had to dive into the end zone.
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Is he as fast as he was two years ago?
 
Frank Lee said:
At this point in his career, work on his detecting a seam and sprinting through it. Gaining five yards is better than looking for something big and gaining one yard doing it.
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He’s at his best when he can make one cut and then turn on the jets to outrun defenders. He’s plenty big and strong enough from a weight room standpoint but doesn’t seem to be able to break the amount of tackles for a RB with that strength.
 
LionDeNittany said:
Drew isn't scaring anyone as a throwing threat either.
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This is where Kotelnicki is key. Plays must be designed so that more receivers are guaranteed to be wide open, meaning shorter routes, crazier meshing, wheel routes, slants, out and ups, etc. As I noted before, Drew waits until after the receiver gets past his break and throws it late. The intuition and timing can't be instilled at this point and both UO and OSU have the talent and schemes to discombobulate Drew. The solution is plays that allow Drew to be successful, explosive plays be damned.
 
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