For fairly obvious reasons, Georgia has only one commitment from a running back in this class, the JUCO kid Chris Carson. Carson just took a trip to Oklahoma State, which made the effort to sway his decision the Cowboys’ way.
The interesting thing is that OSU didn’t take the obvious approach, which would be hard selling the depth charts at the two schools. Instead, this is the direction it took:
“They didn’t really show me the UGA depth chart,” Carson said. “They went down the list of past running backs that UGA had and the past running backs that they had (at Oklahoma State). They said they put more running backs in the NFL than UGA over the last 10 years. They showed me that, and they showed me how they had more 1,000-yard rushers than UGA over that period.”
Maybe the coaches there hope he won’t look at last year’s stats: Nick Chubb, 1547 yards; Oklahoma State as a team, 1776 yards.