Re: *** RB BJ Emmons Commits to Alabama ***
Solid pick-up here. We needed to add a back, and Emmons is a quality addition. We'll look for one more as well.
Emmons is kind of a strange prospect, I find. Based solely on physical build, you would assume he's a powerful, bruising runner, but when you watch the videos on him he actually runs like more of a scat back. Lot of movement in the open field and really not a lot of plowing through tacklers like you would expect of someone of his build. That's not a knock on him, mind you, but it is fair to point out that he won't be able to do that to anywhere near the same degree at the next level, and in the college game in order to play at a high level he is going to have to play to a style that is much more fitting with his current build and frame.
In the pass game, I haven't seen a single clip of him as a blocker or a reference to him catching any balls out of the backfield, so I would assume that will likely require a lot of work to get him up to par on that front. Combined with the above, I would normally say he is someone who probably wouldn't play as a freshman and who may even redshirt, but given our depth issues at tailback, you have to figure he has a good chance to get on the field in some capacity in 2016.
Will say that the overall agility and fluidity of hip movement that he has is really rare for someone of his size. He will have to transition his playing style in a lot of ways, as touched on above, but if he will put in the work and if he can stay healthy he could be a special player.
Solid pick-up here. We needed to add a back, and Emmons is a quality addition. We'll look for one more as well.
Emmons is kind of a strange prospect, I find. Based solely on physical build, you would assume he's a powerful, bruising runner, but when you watch the videos on him he actually runs like more of a scat back. Lot of movement in the open field and really not a lot of plowing through tacklers like you would expect of someone of his build. That's not a knock on him, mind you, but it is fair to point out that he won't be able to do that to anywhere near the same degree at the next level, and in the college game in order to play at a high level he is going to have to play to a style that is much more fitting with his current build and frame.
In the pass game, I haven't seen a single clip of him as a blocker or a reference to him catching any balls out of the backfield, so I would assume that will likely require a lot of work to get him up to par on that front. Combined with the above, I would normally say he is someone who probably wouldn't play as a freshman and who may even redshirt, but given our depth issues at tailback, you have to figure he has a good chance to get on the field in some capacity in 2016.
Will say that the overall agility and fluidity of hip movement that he has is really rare for someone of his size. He will have to transition his playing style in a lot of ways, as touched on above, but if he will put in the work and if he can stay healthy he could be a special player.