His hudl highlights aren’t lights-out in any athletic category. He has good speed (enough to attack the edge of defenses), but not awesome speed (He isn’t getting run down, but he isn’t blowing DB’s away either). He doesn’t show great highlight-reel shiftiness, but is almost never met square by any tackler. He doesn’t demonstrate great power, but repeatedly breaks tackles (this ties in to the fact that he is almost never met square by a tackler).
He seems to have very good vision, and strong cutting ability to take advantage of the vision. He also seems to be short enough that defenders lose sight of him in traffic. Although these are strengths, in ways, they work against him in recruiting because good vision makes a running back seem mundane. (I don’t know how many comments I have read on this page about TT being mid, when in reality he had exceptional vision that made many of his runs look easy).
Because he came out of nowhere with such a huge senior season and his style of running, I think recruiting and ranking was a bit behind for him.
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