Football Phil Steele ranks top-66 running back rooms for 2026 college football season

realhoops2

Senior
Jul 8, 2015
973
904
93
Yesterday Raymond was omitted from the list of Doak Walker Award nominees and today the RU running back room was rated 9th in the B1G and 31st in the nation!

Am I the only one that thinks Raymond, Damere Shaw, and the entire running back room is being severely undervalued???
 

Rutgers Chris

All-American
Nov 29, 2005
5,498
6,529
97
Yesterday Raymond was omitted from the list of Doak Walker Award nominees and today the RU running back room was rated 9th in the B1G and 31st in the nation!

Am I the only one that thinks Raymond, Damere Shaw, and the entire running back room is being severely undervalued???
Steele did the same thing with our wr room. Despite having all American caliber #1’s, he’s overrating the term “room” to pump an extra set of articles with these lists.
 

Knight Shift

Heisman
May 19, 2011
90,067
88,004
113
People always underestimate the violence. When he does the OL rooms, the increased violence of the RU OL needs to be taken into account.
Jefferson from Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight and the Waterboy would be all conference on defense.


 

Shelby65

All-Conference
Apr 1, 2008
8,522
4,716
66
Isn’t it based on expected production rather than talent ?

Unproven QB and Lost a top WR mean less weapons and more predictability.

And At best a questionable D keeping the O on the bench.

9 is very favorable for a team picked 17th in the league and a 4.5 O/U
 
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