Putting on the good weight it looks like. Kid is going to surprise people with how good he is.
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When your phone loads this thread and shows the first picture in the first post, then you hit Jump To New and see THAT? That's quite a difference.
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scarletngray
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Peoples, running behind a strong, first team OL, is going to be a force to be reckoned with. He will be the lighting to Donaldson's thunder.
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It's impossible to escape that comparison imo. I watched about 30 seconds of his film and said "JK all day". We are going to see special stuff from James, he just had to wait awhile minute to carry the torch.
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scarletngray
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Methinks that the only question for our current RB Corps is not if they can run but if they can block. It was Tre and Q's blocking that was truly elite.
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sparcboxbuck
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That was specifically called out during the combine coverage I watched. The comment was that with tOSU backs you get 3-down guys because they run, catch out of the backfield and do the dirty work in the blocking game. I want to say it was skunk-bear Rich who made the comment which, if anything, is an underscore given his affiliations.
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He's still as insufferable as ever......probably the most insufferable since he could be above that if he ever decided to.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Former Ohio State Stars Expect James Peoples to Buckeyes’ Next Great Running Back
When players are asked at the NFL Scouting Combine to name an up-and-coming player to watch on their former college team, many of them choose a player – or multiple players – from their respective position group. When Lathan Ransom was asked that question last week, however, the former Buckeye safety started with a player who lined up on the opposite side of the ball from him in Ohio State practices last season.
“I think James Peoples is a dog,” Ransom said. “That young running back coming up, (he’s going to) make a lot of plays.”
Asked to elaborate on why he’s so high on Peoples’ future, Ransom praised the sophomore running back’s work ethic and how difficult it is to tackle him in space.
“Just a hard worker, man, a dude that runs hard every time he gets a chance,” Ransom said. “And he's a big running back, and tough to get down in that open field, so I think he's going to make a lot of plays.”
Peoples enters his second year at Ohio State with a chance to emerge as the Buckeyes’ top running back in 2025. While Ohio State also brought in West Virginia transfer CJ Donaldson, the ceiling of Ohio State’s 2025 rushing attack could be determined by the growth of Peoples, who’s viewed as a potential second-year breakout star after serving as OSU’s No. 3 running back behind TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins last season.
As Henderson and Judkins split carries atop the depth chart all year long, Peoples didn’t get many opportunities to showcase his skill as a freshman. He ran the ball just 49 times for 197 yards and two touchdowns, with all of his playing time coming with the backups in games that Ohio State already had a comfortable lead in. But Judkins and Henderson, who are both now in line to be early-round NFL draft picks, saw the potential of Peoples in practice.
“James is a great young man,” Judkins said. “Learned a lot from me and Trey with our leadership, taught him a lot of things. He got to see us and how we approach different things. So I think him just coming out in his second year, he'll grow a lot. A very talented player.
“He's fast, a bigger back, I would say just a talented guy,” Judkins said when asked to describe Peoples’ game. “You'll see for sure.”
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Peoples looks to follow in the footsteps of J.K. Dobbins by becoming a star Ohio State running back from the Lone Star State. And Henderson says that’s just the beginning of the comparisons between Peoples and Dobbins, who became Ohio State’s first-ever 2,000-yard rusher in a single season in 2019.
“He has a build like J.K. Dobbins, and I kind of see similarities in their game as well,” said Henderson. “J.K. Dobbins, he was a great running back; I feel like he's not talked about a lot, but his career here, you watch his highlights, is great. I remember before I committed (to Ohio State), I remember watching J.K. Dobbins highlights, like every one of his years here, like four or five times. And so, man, he was such a great back, and I feel like when I see J.K. Dobbins, when I see James Peoples, I see similarities to both of their games. I feel like they play the same.”
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