Haven’t had a lot of time to look at Rodgers but Parker was a Freshman playing big boy football. He got 735 yards on 137 carries behind a Washington State O-Line. So that is 11 or 12 runs per game at over 5 yards per carry. The rest of the team had 302 carries for 1324 yards. So about 25 carries per game at 4.38 yards per carry.
Also as the season went on he started to get a bigger share of the carries on that team.
I am optimistic but you never know how a kid will look when he steps up a level. Either way he was productive and I can see coach Witt saying give that kid the ball 20-25 times a game, and if with our O-Line we can average 4.5+ yards per carry we will take it. If we can get over 5 Yards per carry we will be rolling.
Oh and don’t forget having a running qb will require defenses to assign at least one defender to the qb.