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RB Chris "Beanie" Wells (All B1G, All-American)

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ESPN - Beanie: I dogged it early last season - Big Ten

Beanie: I dogged it early last season
August 22, 2008 3:59 PM
Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- You would think that reviewing a season that featured 1,609 rushing yards, 15 touchdowns and nine games of 100-plus yards would be more pastime than chore.

But when Ohio State running back Chris "Beanie" watched film from the first portion of 2007, he sat in stunned silence, miffed at the guy on the screen.

"The beginning of the season, I wasn't giving it my all out there," he said Friday. "I wasn't."

The worst part? He didn't even know it at the time and has no idea why it happened.

"You just go back and you watch film and you say, 'I could have done more,'" Wells said. "It wasn't the burst that I usually have and the enthusiasm on the football field. When I go back and look at the beginning of the season, I look at it in disgust because I know I could have played a lot better."

Wells opened the season with 46 rushing yards against Youngstown State, but he had 100 or more in the next four games, averaging 6.18 yards a carry. If that's doggin' it, imagine what Wells would have done if he had tried his best.

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Griffin thinks Wells will battle Tebow for Heisman
Posted: August 22, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State fans would love to have tailback Chris "Beanie" Wells win the Heisman Trophy this season. For two reasons.

First, what fans wouldn't want one of their favorite players to win the top individual honor in college football? But more importantly, they want to see Wells win it so that 2007 winner Florida quarterback Tim Tebow doesn't repeat.


That would preserve the distinction of Ohio State's Archie Griffin as the only two-time winner of the award.

"I'm sure they're rooting for me for both reasons," Wells said with a laugh Friday.
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Wells Ready to Carry the Load for the Buckeyes
By John Porentas

It may be Terrelle Pryor's year to garner the hype, but when it comes to somebody who is actually going to make the difference in how the Buckeyes fare this season, the conversation starts and stops with junior tailback Beanie Wells.
Wells' sophomore season, his first as OSU's starter at tailback, started quietly but ended with a flourish. He proved to have the kind of ability that leaves spectators agape and opponents laying in his tracks. After a slow start, Beanie dominated from his tailback position last year. He can wear opponents down with his size, strength, and of course his stiffarm, but yet has the speed to outrun defenses as he did against both Michigan and LSU last fall.
Wells racked up over 1,600 yards rushing last year despite the slow start and two injuries that hindered him as the season wore on. An ankle injury dogged him throughout the last half of the season and a wrist injury that required off-season surgery also hampered him. Through it all, he dominated at times.

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JTt's comments about Beanie at the presser today.

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REPORTER: Jim, talking about loading up the box last year, I know Beanie struggled in the opening, you talked about that the other day. What sort of growth have you seen from him both on the field and maturity-wise since then?

COACH TRESSEL: I think Beanie, if you go back and look at the game, he was so anxious. Every time he got the ball he wanted to just go run for a touchdown and probably didn't have his eyes on the task of how things were unfolding and the blocking scheme and he just wanted to go because he was so excited. What you saw as the season developed was a more patient back, a back who knew more about the schemes. He can stand in the I-back now and he can visualize how it's going to be blocked because he's seen a lot of the different looks. He's had a lot more carries. And as a person, I think he's done a very good job with -- obviously there's a lot more attention paid to him today than there was a year ago today, yet I think he's done a good job keeping his eyes on the task at hand. One of the things that he wanted to accomplish going into last year was to be an Academic All-Big Ten player, to position himself to be so, and he did, and one of the things he talked a lot about this year was he wanted to maintain that because anybody can be something once and he wanted -- and he did, and so I think a lot of things -- he's thinking the right things about all the various things that are happening in his life, but it's tough when you get as much attention as he's going to get both in numbers of people trying to tackle you, there will be a lot of attention on him and on people wanting to talk to you and have you thinking further out than you should be thinking.


REPORTER: Back to Beanie, what did you think of Doc's comparison of Beanie to Jim Brown. Maybe it was just a physical comparison, but --

COACH TRESSEL: You mean way back when?

REPORTER: Yeah, he reiterated it.

COACH TRESSEL: Oh, did he?

REPORTER: Because I asked him.

COACH TRESSEL: He follows instructions well.

REPORTER: You group, I mean --

COACH TRESSEL: Jim Brown is a 6-2, 228 pound guy, for whatever number of years he was in the NFL, nine years or whatever, and if you look at Beanie, he's about the same, you know, body type and punishing kind of runner, so I think the evaluation, it's something I would think that we'd say that he reminds us of and he's aspiring to be like, I don't think it would be one that we'd say, hey, he's just like and he's proven that because I'm not sure anyone has done that, but Beanie is -- he's a lot more like Jim Brown than he is Walter Payton let's say.


REPORTER: Jim, knowing how competitive Beanie is, is this much of a red-letter game for him based on his struggles a year ago?
COACH TRESSEL: I'm sure that knowing Beanie the way that I do and we all do and how good he would like to be, he'll think back to his first game of '07 and say, you know, I wasn't as good as I needed to be, but I hope that doesn't dominate his thinking. I hope his thinking is really focused on the little things that he has to do, and he really is -- he is an attentive guy, very attentive to detail, but hopefully that will take over and I don't know if it needs to be painted as a red-letter game, it's just another game in the progression of him trying to get better. That's what I hope our team looks at, because you start getting too cranked up because it's the opener or too cranked up for whatever reason, you lose a little bit of the focus of what needs to be done.
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Heisman hype begins as OSU's Chris Wells is off and running
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
BY TODD PORTER
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COLUMBUS It wasn't Appalachian State stunning the world, but it was a Penguin ? or an entire defense of them ? stymieing Chris "Beanie" Wells.

A few weeks ago, Wells was smiling and posing for pictures at Ohio Stadium. All was well on a sunny day when he was asked which game he looked forward to most.

"That's easy," Wells said. "Youngstown State."

You might think after 2 1/2 years around Buckeyes Head Coach Jim Tressel, that's what he is programmed to say. Youngstown State because it's the first game, right?

Not quite.

"You remember what I did in that game?" Wells said.

Slightly more than nothing.

That is why Wells is looking forward to the start of the 2008 season. That it's Youngstown State is a bonus. The Buckeyes and Penguins complete a two-year contract Saturday at noon in Columbus as the season kicks off.

Wells ran the ball 16 times against the Penguins for a grand total of 46 yards a year ago. If he does that again, Wells' name might fall off the list of Heisman Trophy hopefuls.

Not all of it was Wells, though. YSU loaded the box. The strength of the Penguins' defense was stopping the run.

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SI: Would you rather win the Heisman or beat Michigan?
Wells: Beat Michigan
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Ohio State's Beanie Wells will attempt to improve upon last year's output of 1,609 yards.

Getting to know Beanie Wells


You already know Ohio State running back Chris "Beanie" Wells is the preseason favorite on the Heisman Watch. But just how well do you know the Buckeyes' bruiser? SI wanted to learn more about Wells so I recently spoke with him to get his thoughts on his injury history, whether he would ever date a girl from the University of Michigan and the possibility of entering the NFL draft after the season.
SI: Thanks for taking the time out to speak with us, Chris. First question: Should I refer to you as Chris Wells, Beanie Wells or Chris "Beanie" Wells?
Wells: (Laughs) It doesn't matter.
SI: But you have to prefer one, right?
Wells: Not really. Chris or Beanie is all the same thing. All of my friends call me Beanie. My grandmother calls me Christopher; Mom calls me Christopher.
SI: If all your friends call you Beanie, we'll refer to you as Beanie, then. How's the left foot?
Wells: It's doing pretty good.
SI: Is it a chronic injury?
Wells: It's something that I aggravated last year. Right now, it's feeling great.

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