Joe Yearby

[ghost2]

At the risk of derailing scintillating threads about the WEZ and the Dancin' Kingsburys...

What are your expectations for Joe Yearby this year? (Assuming a full recovery from injury.) Immediate 2nd team RB? All-purpose back? Return game? 2 Heismans and a reach-around from Bear Bryant's corpse?


Whaddya think?

 

[Dan E. Dangerously]

APB and returns.

 

[Canediver]

He certainly appears to have the talent to be the second running back but I suspect that they will start him out slow and see how he performs under fire. I fully expect him to consolidate the no. 2 position by mid-season.

 

[The Dude]

At the risk of derailing scintillating threads about the WEZ and the Dancin' Kingsburys...

What are your expectations for Joe Yearby this year? (Assuming a full recovery from injury.) Immediate 2nd team RB? All-purpose back? Return game? 2 Heismans and a reach-around from Bear Bryant's corpse?


Whaddya think?

Duke-esque freshman year.

700 rush yards/ 10 all-purpose TD's

 

[niner]

To be honest, I would prefer to see him RS. Still relatively small + coming off an injury. Get bigger, come back 100%.

But if he is good enough to beat out the others for time, more power to us.

 

[RiDLer80]

I don't see him on returns.

He'll probably start out 3rd on the depth chart behind Duke and Edwards, but around game 4-5 I expect him to be our number 2 guy getting more carries than Gus. Golden seems to like to ease freshmen into playing so I don't expect him to be an immediate contributor.

 

[5XNC]

not redshirting and shouldn't. will be number 2 by end of fall camp. as mentioned, a duke like 1st year. I don't know about 700 yards, but, 2nd most yards. gus will be short yardage back/change of pace back.

 

[The Dude]

To be honest, I would prefer to see him RS. Still relatively small + coming off an injury. Get bigger, come back 100%.

But if he is good enough to beat out the others for time, more power to us.

No point in redshirting the kid. You aren't going to get a 5th year out of him, if even he would to stay for his senior year. Get him as ready as he can be as a true freshmen, and pick his spots to play. Then, when Duke leaves next year, he takes over that #1 RB spot.

 

[The Dude]

not redshirting and shouldn't. will be number 2 by end of fall camp. as mentioned, a duke like 1st year. I don't know about 700 yards, but, 2nd most yards. gus will be short yardage back/change of pace back.

I think 700 yards is a good number for him. He will be eased in to the game for the first couple, and then by the 3rd week, he should see more snaps as the secondary back.

Sees alot more action in garbage time/lesser opponents, where he has 100+ rush yards in each.

 

[niner]

To be honest, I would prefer to see him RS. Still relatively small + coming off an injury. Get bigger, come back 100%.

But if he is good enough to beat out the others for time, more power to us.

No point in redshirting the kid. You aren't going to get a 5th year out of him, if even he would to stay for his senior year. Get him as ready as he can be as a true freshmen, and pick his spots to play. Then, when Duke leaves next year, he takes over that #1 RB spot.

Not really for the intent to be here a 4th year. He can still be 3 years out of high school, leave after his rs sophomore year. Its more for hope that the other rbs are good enough to beat out a freshmen. But, if he is better, get him in.

 

[janneke99]

I understand the desire to have a big power back on the team and the advantages one can bring to the field. But with Duke as #1, having a similar type back as #2 is not the worst thing in the world, especially when he is as talented as Joe Yearby. I'm not a scout, so take it for what it is worth.....Yearby is the real deal, with incredible feet.......He did not generate the recruiting buzz because he committed early and stuck with it but are we all sleeping on Yearby?

His injury slowed his development down but it is April and he is "practicing" with pads on and no contact......What happens if Yearby is as productive or close to Duke's freshman year...........................Yearby is the truth..................

 

[umwader]

You are living dangerously with only two capable backs now a days in major college football, one snap away from a season changing instantly without proper depth (see: hurricanes, Miami 2013). With that said no chance he shirts obviously and needs to be a capable option along with Duke and Gus. If he overachieves even better but definitely think saying a Duke like freshman year is a little much to ask (though I'd gladly be proven wrong)

 

[The Dude]

To be honest, I would prefer to see him RS. Still relatively small + coming off an injury. Get bigger, come back 100%.

But if he is good enough to beat out the others for time, more power to us.

No point in redshirting the kid. You aren't going to get a 5th year out of him, if even he would to stay for his senior year. Get him as ready as he can be as a true freshmen, and pick his spots to play. Then, when Duke leaves next year, he takes over that #1 RB spot.

Not really for the intent to be here a 4th year. He can still be 3 years out of high school and leave after his rs sophomore year. Its more for hope that the other rbs are good enough to beat out a freshmen. But, if he is better, get him in.

That is precisely my point...No one we have at RB, sans Duke, is better than Yearby. You can make an argument that Gus has at least proven he can play D1, but we still need more than two RB's.

No point in holding the kid out and only getting 2-years out of him. Let him play as a freshmen, take his lumps, so he is seasoned by the time he is a sophomore.

If we had Alex Collins, Duke, Sony on the roster, I would agree with your point about him maybe not being able to beat out those guys (although I still think he is as dynamic as any of the aforementioned RB's), and taking a red-shirt year to gain muscle and separate our RB's a little.

Not the case, kid is going to ball out this year. Excited either way. We haven't had a backfield consisting of two elite RB's since the McGahee/Gore days.

 

[MDOcane]

IF he's 100% healthy..

IMO
6-8 rushes/game
1-2 catches/game
around 600/700 all purpose yards

 

[MizCane]

At the risk of derailing scintillating threads about the WEZ and the Dancin' Kingsburys...

What are your expectations for Joe Yearby this year? (Assuming a full recovery from injury.) Immediate 2nd team RB? All-purpose back? Return game? 2 Heismans and a reach-around from Bear Bryant's corpse?

Whaddya think?

Duke-esque freshman year.

700 rush yards/ 10 all-purpose TD's

Unless Duke gets injured I don't see him having his type of Frosh numbers but I would love to be wrong

 

[WestEndZone]

We faced Duke (Norland) and Joe (Central) 3 times each.

We held Duke under 100 rushing all three times and Joe ran for over 100 each time. Take what you want from that.

 

[The Dude]

We faced Duke (Norland) and Joe (Central) 3 times each.

We held Duke under 100 rushing all three times and Joe ran for over 100 each time. Take what you want from that.

Don't want to turn this into this guys is better than that guy, but this says alot considering Joe was splitting carries with the other RB everyone was droolin' over.

 

[WestEndZone]

We faced Duke (Norland) and Joe (Central) 3 times each.

We held Duke under 100 rushing all three times and Joe ran for over 100 each time. Take what you want from that.

Don't want to turn this into this guys is better than that guy, but this says alot considering Joe was splitting carries with the other RB everyone was droolin' over.

I'm not starting that talk! lol. That's a futile conversation. I'm just saying that Joe is a stud.

 

[ghost2]

Personally I'm riding with Yearby playing a LOT this year, and being on the field at the same time as Duke quite a bit. Either in 2 back sets, split wide, motioned, etc.

I'd like to see him on KR with Coley if he's 100%...

 

[The Dude]

We faced Duke (Norland) and Joe (Central) 3 times each.

We held Duke under 100 rushing all three times and Joe ran for over 100 each time. Take what you want from that.

Don't want to turn this into this guys is better than that guy, but this says alot considering Joe was splitting carries with the other RB everyone was droolin' over.

I'm not starting that talk! lol. That's a futile conversation. I'm just saying that Joe is a stud.

I wasn't implying you were. I wanted to make a point about Joe sharing a backfield with the other guy, and still being able to put up >100 yards. I felt my comment was leaving an opening to that debate, where I just wanted to make the aforementioned point.