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I'll go with the CANE in this argument!
IMO: Cook > Yearby. Watched them play Naples this past season, and Cook is just on another level.
But I ain't even mad with this commitment.
And somebody here said Portis thinks Yearby is better.
Translation: Both of them are **** good running backs. With their own strengths and weaknesses. If Yearby turns out to be Gio Bernard, would folks really complain? Dude can run and has a great feel for the position.
Yearby ran for more yards.
Yearby ran for more yards.
No, he didn't.
Joe Yearby- 212 carries, 1,448 yards (6.8 ypc), 20 TDs
Dalvin Cook- 127 carries, 1,452 yards (11.4 ypc), 21 TDs
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cook is better all day... Cook is like duke... can return kicks and all...
Here's my own personal analysis:
Let me preface this by saying I think they are both amazing running backs, however everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
Yearby has amazing vision, and that one skill which is so elusive (that Devin Hester perfected): reading the line a defensive player takes, faking to draw him off the line that Yearby will actually take, and then blowing by him. This skill by itself is not unheard of, plenty of players juke and fake till their legs run out. However Yearby does something I have seen very few players do, which is to do a juke or fake without barely altering his direction or speed. He causes defenders to whiff without compromising himself to being caught from behind. Once again the player who perfected that was Devin Hester. His tape shows he's not scared of contact (good news) but its not necessarily his strong point. Lets rate that as a par. His greatest weakness when compared to Cook in my opinion is his top end speed (he accelerates faster than cook, but stalls around 20-30 yards down). However he makes up for this by never having to decrease his speed due to his vision.
Cook's greatest attributes are his top end speed, and his ability to finagle himself out of tackles. He has alright vision, not a weakness but not amazing either, and as I stated previously has a slower first step than Yearby. The development of his vision, however, seems to have been hampered by his high top level speed which he relies on too often to simply run past defenders in a compromised situation. Furthermore, while he is able to get out of tackles so well it still remains to be seen whether this will carry over to the next level. He doesn't seem to knock the defenders around, and simply bounce off, but rather pull off a Houdini-like escape. This has me worried that it is more a result of bad tackling, which if true could cause a significant drop off at the next level.
My preference: Yearby
His vision and ability to draw defenders off without slowing down can't be taught, in my opinion while Cook is an amazing running back at the high school level, Yearby has the highest ceiling due to his vision, and also has the most transitional-able skill set for the college game.
cook is better all day... Cook is like duke... can return kicks and all...
Here's my own personal analysis:
Let me preface this by saying I think they are both amazing running backs, however everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
Yearby has amazing vision, and that one skill which is so elusive (that Devin Hester perfected): reading the line a defensive player takes, faking to draw him off the line that Yearby will actually take, and then blowing by him. This skill by itself is not unheard of, plenty of players juke and fake till their legs run out. However Yearby does something I have seen very few players do, which is to do a juke or fake without barely altering his direction or speed. He causes defenders to whiff without compromising himself to being caught from behind. Once again the player who perfected that was Devin Hester. His tape shows he's not scared of contact (good news) but its not necessarily his strong point. Lets rate that as a par. His greatest weakness when compared to Cook in my opinion is his top end speed (he accelerates faster than cook, but stalls around 20-30 yards down). However he makes up for this by never having to decrease his speed due to his vision.
Cook's greatest attributes are his top end speed, and his ability to finagle himself out of tackles. He has alright vision, not a weakness but not amazing either, and as I stated previously has a slower first step than Yearby. The development of his vision, however, seems to have been hampered by his high top level speed which he relies on too often to simply run past defenders in a compromised situation. Furthermore, while he is able to get out of tackles so well it still remains to be seen whether this will carry over to the next level. He doesn't seem to knock the defenders around, and simply bounce off, but rather pull off a Houdini-like escape. This has me worried that it is more a result of bad tackling, which if true could cause a significant drop off at the next level.
My preference: Yearby
His vision and ability to draw defenders off without slowing down can't be taught, in my opinion while Cook is an amazing running back at the high school level, Yearby has the highest ceiling due to his vision, and also has the most transitional-able skill set for the college game.
will Central lose a game this year?
I think not
Here's my own personal analysis:
Let me preface this by saying I think they are both amazing running backs, however everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
Yearby has amazing vision, and that one skill which is so elusive (that Devin Hester perfected): reading the line a defensive player takes, faking to draw him off the line that Yearby will actually take, and then blowing by him. This skill by itself is not unheard of, plenty of players juke and fake till their legs run out. However Yearby does something I have seen very few players do, which is to do a juke or fake without barely altering his direction or speed. He causes defenders to whiff without compromising himself to being caught from behind. Once again the player who perfected that was Devin Hester. His tape shows he's not scared of contact (good news) but its not necessarily his strong point. Lets rate that as a par. His greatest weakness when compared to Cook in my opinion is his top end speed (he accelerates faster than cook, but stalls around 20-30 yards down). However he makes up for this by never having to decrease his speed due to his vision.
Cook's greatest attributes are his top end speed, and his ability to finagle himself out of tackles. He has alright vision, not a weakness but not amazing either, and as I stated previously has a slower first step than Yearby. The development of his vision, however, seems to have been hampered by his high top level speed which he relies on too often to simply run past defenders in a compromised situation. Furthermore, while he is able to get out of tackles so well it still remains to be seen whether this will carry over to the next level. He doesn't seem to knock the defenders around, and simply bounce off, but rather pull off a Houdini-like escape. This has me worried that it is more a result of bad tackling, which if true could cause a significant drop off at the next level.
My preference: Yearby
His vision and ability to draw defenders off without slowing down can't be taught, in my opinion while Cook is an amazing running back at the high school level, Yearby has the highest ceiling due to his vision, and also has the most transitional-able skill set for the college game.
Don't quite agree with your preference, but that was a really spot-on analysis of both of them (based off what I've seen, anyway). Great post. +rep