He’s much better than “OK.” He’s good, not great.
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I am comfortable saying he is good. He would slot in at probably a top half RB in the Big 12, so that means he is good.
He's productive, aided greatly by an outstanding offensive live.
He would have been in the mix for a top half RB in 2020 (2021, probably yes).
He would have been behind Hall, Chuba, Brown, Vaughn, Robinson (an absolute stud in the making), Stevenson. The guy that got run at the end of the year for OSU is going to be a stud too.
Iowa does play some good defenses, but the problem is that Goodson hasn't really played well against any of those.
I am not a Vaughn fan. I think he was aided statistically by being the only functional piece of that offense considering Thompson and the UNI TE were hurt for huge portions of the season. Stevenson is unquestionably a better player but he played even less games than Goodson.
You can look at that both ways. I think Vaughn will be even better without a very limited QB and if they can find some other weapons to take the pressure off of him.
He was very good at times.
Jacob Imming with a rating bump. Almost 4* now.
I mean, maybe he does based on measurables and the schools reputation for TEs, but his actual production was not impressive. He had 11 catches for 158 yards and 1 TD in 7 games this past year. On an offense that wasn't great. If he was this big weapon, you'd think that he would have gotten the ball more. Blocking is important, but if he's getting drafted based on his size/speed ratio, why didn't they throw to him more? I didn't watch every iowa game, but the ones I did, he didn't stand out as being anything above pedestrian.
Have you seen Brandon Smith’s measurables and his production this year? A lot of that falls on the guy that was throwing the ball this year.
This is all hoks have, twist the numbers, find some obscure angle where they can say there numbers our good.
Next thing it will be "Well if you take out games played <35 degrees, our punter led the nation in net yards".
It's because their season was YAWN. Don't care why, could be because they were YAWN, could be because they played in a screwed up conference, whatever. But what they can't do is say "Look at the incredible season we had" like ISU can.
So they need to toil in meaningless statistics.
Brandon Smiths are a dime a dozen in the NFL.
