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RB is a tough position to pick up. That said, I could see one of them having a Frank Gore 2001-type impact but Cam Harris and Robert Burns will be leaned on early and often.

It's beginning to feel increasingly likely that if there's a season, the roles for true freshmen will be diminished. These are kids who have yet to experience a scrimmage at the collegiate level. There's no way to replicate the speed of the game without practice reps or scrimmages. An...

What do we think? Is this enough time to get true freshmen up to speed? Proposed preseason calendar Voluntary workouts: June 1-25 (virtual instruction 8 hours per week) Mandatory workouts: July 13, 25 days before first permissible preseason practice date Walk-throughs and meetings: July 24, 14...

True dat. I worry about King's health long-term. He throws his body around. Harris has the makings of a bell-cow too, but SMU used 2 backs last year so if Burns holds off the freshmen one of them just might redshirt.

@Gooner#44 are you in favor of tightening player rotations? If there was ever a year to be didactic with true freshmen it's 2020. Yes, they may have more talent than some of the upperclassmen but for better or worse, Miami will need to depend on its front-line players. There really is no...

He's been healthy enough to play. I think they uncovered what had been wrong with him and he is now more durable. Sometimes they need to identify where a kid must get stronger to prevent him from getting hurt as often. I want Knighton and Chaney ahead of him TODAY, but I don't think it happens...

I agree that there's a 100% chance one of the RBs will play. But I wouldn't bury old Bob Burns just yet. He's been healthy the past couple seasons - he's just been behind Homer, Dallas and Harris. He was definitely ahead of Lingard's muthafvckin sorry ***

Another way to view our allotment of talent and to alleviate the impact of Covid-19 on the incoming freshmen is to set the initial depth chart without any true freshmen, as if they don't really exist - and then be especially selective when extracting contributors from the pool of new players as...

It's a veteran roster in most spots. It might not seem like it with fewer than 10 seniors but adding King, Roche, Phillips, Bolden, McCloud, Jennings, Joyner, Traore, Borregales, Williams (fingers crossed) as guys who were pretty much out of the equation in 2019 gives us a nice boost.

It might even be more plausible on defense to be honest: DL: With 14 DL on the rooster it's easy to redshirt Chantz Williams, Quentin Williams, Elijah Roberts LB: We only play 2 LBs at a time so Cave and Flagg can probably RS unless injuries occur DB: Gets trickier because if we were to...

The majority of freshmans will redshirt in 2020

I should reiterate that I don't want nor expect Chaney to redshirt. Only that we might find ourselves in the position of having the option. If he's the 4th string RB when camp ends, which is hardly an impossibility, there will be internal discussion about possibly trying to shelve him for the...

Let's hypothetically say that Chaney is behind Burns because Hickson wants to reward Burns' stellar record of community service, trusts him on blitz pickups and not to fumble. What if Chaney is not actually needed until there's 4 games left in the regular season? In which case he could...

Both RBs don't necessarily have to play. Harris, Burns, Knighton with Chaney available if needed is fine. But we don't need to play them both "because they're only going to be here for 3 years anyway bro." If we can redshirt one of them, then redshirt one of them. What's the problem? All four...

Then why haven't any of the true freshmens who redshirted for us in 2019 fled to the portal? Since that's apparently what happens whenever a kid is presented with the option of redshirting. Matocha Payton Hodges Elgammal Blissett Harvey Holley Hunte Williams Huff how are they not all in the...

Well, sweetpea, I didn't say "let's redshirt all da freshmans" I merely presented how it could be done because I got hi af last night. Of course we want the best product on the field, and if a kid like Mike Redding or Diaz Worsham or Avantae Williams is ready for the big-time in 2020 then throw...

4 full games while retaining your eligibility isn't a bad deal for the player in question. It's like people aren't aware of these new rules. If the player is obviously ready to contribute but is held back just to preserve his eligibility - then that's a problem. But that situation will be few...

Would you concede that what Miami has been doing the past 16 years hasn't worked - and that maybe it's time we stop selling ourselves as nothing but a conduit to the NFL?

According to who? I'm sure he's healing fine but he was in a brace a couple months ago.

This is the system that has worked quite well at Clemson. They don't always finish with the best recruiting class but they're expert at keeping their kids around and having them ready when their time comes. It wouldn't hurt to make a concerted effort in shifting how these kids think about their...