As requested by Cadaver, I looked up "consensus"

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Originally Posted by codeDawg

I'm going to take the other side of this one. As I see it we have one guy that can do some things in JRob, but everybody behind him is suspect.

Griffin has shown flashes of talent, only to be knocked down by injury. Who knows if that trend will continue, or if he will be able to move past it. This is his last shot, so I hope he is as good in the fall as he was in the spring.

Shump is a powerful back that needs to learn how to run in the SEC. He needs to figure out how to go forward without going over and through people.

Williams has a chance to be great, but he's a true freshman, and we all know how that goes. He's not going to break out this year.

I see one guy that has proven he can do it and three guys with asterisks. I would love to be proven wrong. BTW, I don't know anything about Dontavian Lee, but I love that kid's tape. He's a powerful back with great field vision. He won't content this year, but watch out in the future.

I agree those behind JRob are unproven and therefore suspect but mostly just because they're unproven. I will agree with Matt about the media and others though. A lot of them just look and think, "oh, they post LP." The truth of it is that 9 outa 10 MSU folks I knew and talked with last year knew even then that Robinson should be getting more touches. It got almost got cliche that we would we would waste 7-10 plays a game running LP up the middle for -1 to 2 yards per carry. He would occasionally go for more up the middle but his best plays were usually to the corners or receiving. We tried to make him a bruiser (sort of a Boobie lite) and he just wasn't. We really used him wrong. Anyway, back to the matter at hand, it's really only State people that know we didn't really lose our best RB (for the way we were using them). He's still there safely under the radar and ready to ride roughshod over all but the best SEC defenses and he'll still give them fits I believe.