🏈 Najee Harris eagerly awaits bigger role at Alabama

[TUSKtimes]

Sounds like being 18 and patient is pretty tough.

Top recruit Najee Harris eagerly awaits bigger role at Alabama

 

[Tidestalker]

Very interesting quote here. Basically after a week after WINNING the championship he was bummed out due to not enough touches. Man... These kids in 2018 are an amazing challenge. Sounds like he got some good advice.... My advice would be watch out for Brian Robinson... He's a beast too! :bama2:

Malu and another friend, Mori Suesue, listened to Harris’ frustration over his lack of playing time and encouraged him to stay at Alabama. Harris’ mom, Tianna Hicks, offered similar advice.

And so, after mulling it over for a few days, he returned to Tuscaloosa.

“I told him there’s not another school that is going to prep him as well, and give him the competition every day to get him ready for (playing on) Sundays,” Malu said of their conversations in January. “He was just down. I said, ‘You have to go back. I know you’re down right now, it happens. But you have to go back.’

“He needed the mental battles, so he can stay focused and hungry. I told him, ‘You’ve always been the hardest worker, and now you’re in a room full of hard workers. Nobody remembers what you did all year, they remember the yardage you gained in the title game.’”
Harris had two 70-yard rushing games early in the season, in blowout wins over Fresno State and Vanderbilt. He barely saw meaningful action in the second half of the season, until head coach Nick Saban abruptly inserted him in the fourth quarter of the national-championship game. Harris quickly ripped off runs of 16, 35 and 11 yards.

Tagovailoa understandably received credit for sparking Alabama’s comeback, but Harris played a strong supporting role. He was “running angry,” as he told Malu, because he felt he regularly outplayed other running backs in practice — often breaking long runs — and still had to wait his turn behind more experienced players.

 

[BamaFan334]

It wouldn't shock me at all to see Josh Jacobs lose a bulk or even all of his carries to Robinson and Najee. What a shame, because he has amazing talent and could start anywhere in the country, except here. His injuries have hurt his opportunities, but he is still very dangerous and will be serviceable for us. We have too many weapons to spread the ball too, especially if Tua wins the position and can distribute the ball through the air. It also wouldn't shock me if we averaged 40 points a game this Fall.

 

[Tidestalker]

It wouldn't shock me at all to see Josh Jacobs lose a bulk or even all of his carries to Robinson and Najee. What a shame, because he has amazing talent and could start anywhere in the country, except here. His injuries have hurt his opportunities, but he is still very dangerous and will be serviceable for us. We have too many weapons to spread the ball too, especially if Tua wins the position and can distribute the ball through the air. It also wouldn't shock me if we averaged 40 points a game this Fall.

Great points. Tough break for Jacobs to be hurt most of the season with so much young talent coming up.

But shit, in today's NFL, Jacobs may a better fit for that league than the other studs. Whether or not he can get healthy and get the carries to prove it is another debate. His role at UA may be more exclusively in the pass game moving forward, but I'm a huge believer in him as a total RB. He runs deceptively strong and finishes hard. Good player

 

[BamaFan334]

It wouldn't shock me at all to see Josh Jacobs lose a bulk or even all of his carries to Robinson and Najee. What a shame, because he has amazing talent and could start anywhere in the country, except here. His injuries have hurt his opportunities, but he is still very dangerous and will be serviceable for us. We have too many weapons to spread the ball too, especially if Tua wins the position and can distribute the ball through the air. It also wouldn't shock me if we averaged 40 points a game this Fall.

Great points. Tough break for Jacobs to be hurt most of the season with so much young talent coming up.

But shit, in today's NFL, Jacobs may a better fit for that league than the other studs. Whether or not he can get healthy and get the carries to prove it is another debate. His role at UA may be more exclusively in the pass game moving forward, but I'm a huge believer in him as a total RB. He runs deceptively strong and finishes hard. Good player

He reminds me of LeSean McCoy with the way he runs and with the ball in his hands. Not a bad comparison at all.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Very interesting quote here. Basically after a week after WINNING the championship he was bummed out due to not enough touches. Man... These kids in 2018 are an amazing challenge. Sounds like he got some good advice.... My advice would be watch out for Brian Robinson... He's a beast too! :bama2:

One week after the natty and he ain't happy, yeah, I caught that too. Makes me kinda wish Najee and Tua weren't rooming together. I'm sure they developed a kindred through their camps and recruitment, but I've been around a lot of impatience people and it's not a trait too many people get the best of in their life.

I also didn't know his mother moved south. That feels like a blessing.

 

[Tidestalker]

Very interesting quote here. Basically after a week after WINNING the championship he was bummed out due to not enough touches. Man... These kids in 2018 are an amazing challenge. Sounds like he got some good advice.... My advice would be watch out for Brian Robinson... He's a beast too! :bama2:

One week after the natty and he ain't happy, yeah, I caught that too. Makes me kinda wish Najee and Tua weren't rooming together. I'm sure they developed a kindred through their camps and recruitment, but I've been around a lot of impatience people and it's not a trait too many people get the best of in their life.

I also didn't know his mother moved south. That feels like a blessing.

Well.... Hindsight always 20/20.... But maybe he and Tua were onto something.

Amazing how many little fires a coach at that level has to put out. All coaches... But Saban's plate is spilling over the sides

 

[Tidestalker]

It wouldn't shock me at all to see Josh Jacobs lose a bulk or even all of his carries to Robinson and Najee. What a shame, because he has amazing talent and could start anywhere in the country, except here. His injuries have hurt his opportunities, but he is still very dangerous and will be serviceable for us. We have too many weapons to spread the ball too, especially if Tua wins the position and can distribute the ball through the air. It also wouldn't shock me if we averaged 40 points a game this Fall.

Great points. Tough break for Jacobs to be hurt most of the season with so much young talent coming up.

But shit, in today's NFL, Jacobs may a better fit for that league than the other studs. Whether or not he can get healthy and get the carries to prove it is another debate. His role at UA may be more exclusively in the pass game moving forward, but I'm a huge believer in him as a total RB. He runs deceptively strong and finishes hard. Good player

He reminds me of LeSean McCoy with the way he runs and with the ball in his hands. Not a bad comparison at all.

I dig it. Really hope his health allows him the chance to prove it

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Just what happens when you recruit like NS....o Najee, more studs coming in this year and next....better not let ur guard down

 

[bradenob]

Very interesting quote here. Basically after a week after WINNING the championship he was bummed out due to not enough touches. Man... These kids in 2018 are an amazing challenge. Sounds like he got some good advice.... My advice would be watch out for Brian Robinson... He's a beast too! :bama2:

One week after the natty and he ain't happy, yeah, I caught that too. Makes me kinda wish Najee and Tua weren't rooming together. I'm sure they developed a kindred through their camps and recruitment, but I've been around a lot of impatience people and it's not a trait too many people get the best of in their life.

I also didn't know his mother moved south. That feels like a blessing.

I wonder if anyone advised him to talk to Derrick Henry? Very similar circumstance. Amazing running back, incredible athlete, incredible work ethic, expecting stardom in his first year, after dominating at a medium sized High School.

Obviously Harris could have gone many places - UCLA, Washington, USC, on the West Coast, or Texas, even Oklahoma, in the midwest, or too many programs in the SEC - Florida, Texas A & M, for sure, and then a star as a freshman. But did he not get a good taste of it during the biggest game of all? He had some great runs when we really needed to pass a lot.

Hopefully he has that out of his system and realizes that his share of carries is going to increased tremendously this year. I wrote in another post that, even sharing with three other good running backs, I would expect him to get 30% of the carries. I hope he can understand that that's going to be a lot of carries in a very balanced offense and that it's keeping him fresh for what will probably be his star year, and last year, at Alabama, as a junior. That will only help his draft position in the NFL.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I wonder if anyone advised him to talk to Derrick Henry? Very similar circumstance. Amazing running back, incredible athlete, incredible work ethic, expecting stardom in his first year, after dominating at a medium sized High School.

Obviously Harris could have gone many places - UCLA, Washington, USC, on the West Coast, or Texas, even Oklahoma, in the midwest, or too many programs in the SEC - Florida, Texas A & M, for sure, and then a star as a freshman. But did he not get a good taste of it during the biggest game of all? He had some great runs when we really needed to pass a lot.

Hopefully he has that out of his system and realizes that his share of carries is going to increased tremendously this year. I wrote in another post that, even sharing with three other good running backs, I would expect him to get 30% of the carries. I hope he can understand that that's going to be a lot of carries in a very balanced offense and that it's keeping him fresh for what will probably be his star year, and last year, at Alabama, as a junior. That will only help his draft position in the NFL.

Henry would definitely be the guy to talk to. I think Harris recruitment came down to Bama and Michigan in a close one. I hope somewhere down the line he appreciates getting to the NC and having a say in its outcome. It sounds like his mentor out west has reminded him of just that. Youngsters seem to want it all yesterday.

 

[TerryP]

Henry would definitely be the guy to talk to. I think Harris recruitment came down to Bama and Michigan in a close one.

Michigan fans would agree with you.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I wonder if anyone advised him to talk to Derrick Henry? Very similar circumstance. Amazing running back, incredible athlete, incredible work ethic, expecting stardom in his first year, after dominating at a medium sized High School.

Obviously Harris could have gone many places - UCLA, Washington, USC, on the West Coast, or Texas, even Oklahoma, in the midwest, or too many programs in the SEC - Florida, Texas A & M, for sure, and then a star as a freshman. But did he not get a good taste of it during the biggest game of all? He had some great runs when we really needed to pass a lot.

Hopefully he has that out of his system and realizes that his share of carries is going to increased tremendously this year. I wrote in another post that, even sharing with three other good running backs, I would expect him to get 30% of the carries. I hope he can understand that that's going to be a lot of carries in a very balanced offense and that it's keeping him fresh for what will probably be his star year, and last year, at Alabama, as a junior. That will only help his draft position in the NFL.[/QUOTE


Youngsters seem to want it all yesterday.

Hey.... are you kidding me.... not just youngsters.... i still want it all yesterday...
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