Posted by Duane Long on Aug 19, 2010 at 05:03 pm
This time last year if I asked fans to name a Class of 2012 player some would have said Greg McMullen but most would have said Brionte Dunn. He appeared on the scene as a freshman looking like the second coming of Chris Wells. I saw the thing in him that separates big backs from tweeners. I am talking about the feet. Quick, quick, quick. The outstanding big backs are 220-225 but have the same quick feet as players forty lbs lighter. So the question becomes, why is Dunn so far down the list now?
The answer is pretty simple. On his sophomore film, I did not see those same quick feet. I did not see the jump cuts. I did not see the same explosion. My concern when we first saw him was that he could outgrow the position. Anytime you have a player that big at such an early age, the odds he is going to outgrow the position are pretty good.
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