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

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NFBuck said:
One huge benefit that Beanie has is a proven back ahead of him to develop under and learn from...something #13 didn't have. MoC had problems coming in, but his EGO was inflated by his early success and was ultimately his downfall. Working Beanie in slowly will let him develop not only physically, but mentally to playing on such a large stage. Having ESPiN the magazine touting you as a Heisman competitor and potential #1 overall pick 6 weeks into your college career will swell just about any 18 year old kids head.
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Bullsh*t.

Adrian Peterson has his head on straight, and he wasn't a heisman competitor... he placed #2.

MoC was a bad seed no matter how you cut it.
 
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They were just talking to Downing and Barton (not Rehring as I originally posted) on local news about the Wells carry and they were positively gushing. Barton said he knocked the defender into next Tuesday's practice.

JT seems determined to keep up his 'Pittman is the man' rhetoric, but this is going to be fun.


MoC had problems coming in, but his EGO was inflated by his early success and was ultimately his downfall.
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MoC had character issues, not ego issues.
 
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Oh8ch said:
They were just talking to Downing and Rehring on local news about the Wells carry and they were positively gushing. Rehring said he knocked the defender into next Tuesday's practice.

JT seems determined to keep up his 'Pittman is the man' rhetoric, but this is going to be fun.
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There is something rather glorious about your (currently) #4 RB challenging someone coming off a 1300-yard year. Have to love that depth. Let's run the ball every play.

Oh wait... our receivers are pretty good too...

You're right... this is going to be fun. :biggrin:
 
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You know as much as Chris Wells has most likely learned from MO 's mistakes(hopefully) you have to wonder how much JT has learned to handle a young superstar in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><st1:place>Columbus</st1:place></st1:City>. I also wonder how that is going to change JT's approach with his young star as well. It took Ted Ginn a couple of games into the season to get any real playing time as well.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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In all honesty though, I am sick and tired of the comparisions to Chris Wells and MO C already. I do not think anyone should have to be compared to that piece of dirt. I am sure if he does well ESPIN and everyone will be bringing that stupid shi* up again. I can not wait for this young man to make his own name.<o:p></o:p>
 
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In all honesty though, I am sick and tired of the comparisions to Chris Wells and MO C already.
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Amen. They both fall into the category of extraoridinarily talented running backs. There is absolutlely no basis for suggesting any correlation between that and commonality of character, personality, GPA, work ethic or anything else.
 
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craigblitz said:
You know as much as Chris Wells has most likely learned from MO 's mistakes(hopefully) you have to wonder how much JT has learned to handle a young superstar in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><ST1:place>Columbus</ST1:place></st1:City>. I also wonder how that is going to change JT's approach with his young star as well. It took Ted Ginn a couple of games into the season to get any real playing time as well.<O:p></O:p>
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I agree with the comments on MoC but I think he and Ginn are a bit different. Ginn never played much WR and he had to learn to run routes and things in that nature. Beanie will have to learn the plays but he is playing the position he has played his whole HS career. Also I think Tressel isn't trying to keep AP off the field rather than just trying to keep the hype machine of Wells down a bit for Beanies sake. I'm sure Tressel will give him the amount of carries that he earns.
 
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http://dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/02/20060402-E4-04.html

Beanie can hit

Bollman said freshman running back Chris "Beanie" Wells acquitted himself well during the first day of full-contact practice.
The Buckeyes held a "Hoot and Holler" session, in which a ball carrier lines up behind a blocker and tries to get past a defender into the end zone.
Wells apparently steamrolled somebody at the goal line.
"He was fine, he got the ball and he scored the first try, it didn’t take him three tries," Bollman said. "It was good to see him have a successful opportunity. He has a pretty good idea what to do with the ball. When he gets it, he kind of heads in the right direction."
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for those wandering..

my buddy is a student worker for the team.

We had a lengthy discussion the day that happened.

I want to say that he mentioned Brandon Mitchell getting 'trucked over by Wells the first time he touched the ball."

I'll correct this if I talk to him and accidentally put the wrong name.. But I'm 90% sure he said Mitchell.

We talked about a lot of things, but that line definitely jumped out at me.
 
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