AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
-
Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!
Heading for the second consecutive season with a 1st Team All-Pac 12 WR
- Thread starter Duff Man
- Start date
Worded it poorly, but you knew what I meant. Would actually really like to know.
And two consecutive seasons with nothing to show for it.
This in a way reflective of something that is common in both college and pro football.
Why do we have all-conference recievers? In large part because we have to throw the ball a lot. We haven't been very good on a consistent basis running the ball and we have been behind a lot so the ball is in the air a lot. We have also had one receiver who is significantly better and more experienced than our others so lots of those balls end up going to one guy. Big stats get attention for post-season honors, even without wins.
How many of the top statistical guys in the NFL or the NCAA play on top end teams. Last year somebody posted on this site a listing of the top 10 rushers in the NFL and the top ten receivers. In both cases only a couple of guys were even on playoff teams.
Last years top 10 FBS rushers
| 1 | Andre Williams, RB | BC | 355 | 2177 | 6.1 | 80 | 18 |
| 2 | Jordan Lynch, QB | NIU | 292 | 1920 | 6.6 | 61 | 23 |
| 3 | Ka'Deem Carey, RB | ARIZ | 349 | 1885 | 5.4 | 58 | 19 |
| 4 | Bishop Sankey, RB | WASH | 327 | 1870 | 5.7 | 60 | 20 |
| 5 | Tre Mason, RB | AUB | 317 | 1816 | 5.7 | 53 | 23 |
| 6 | Kapri Bibbs, RB | CSU | 281 | 1741 | 6.2 | 85 | 31 |
| 7 | Antonio Andrews, RB | WKU | 267 | 1730 | 6.5 | 65 | 16 |
| 8 | Tyler Gaffney, RB | STAN | 330 | 1709 | 5.2 | 69 | 21 |
| 9 | Ameer Abdullah, RB | NEB | 281 | 1690 | 6.0 | 62 | 9 |
| 10 | Melvin Gordon, RB | WIS | 206 | 1609 | 7.8 | 80 | 12 |
And top 10 receivers
| Brandin Cooks, WR | ORST | 128 | 1730 | 13.5 | 55 | 16 | |
| 2 | Davante Adams, WR | FRES | 131 | 1718 | 13.1 | 75 | 24 |
| 3 | Willie Snead, WR | BALL | 106 | 1516 | 14.3 | 55 | 15 |
| 4 | Jordan Matthews, WR | SOU | 112 | 1477 | 13.2 | 55 | 7 |
| 5 | Sammy Watkins, WR | CLEM | 101 | 1464 | 14.5 | 96 | 12 |
| 6 | Allen Robinson, WR | PSU | 97 | 1432 | 14.8 | 65 | 6 |
| 7 | Mike Evans, WR | TA&M | 69 | 1394 | 20.2 | 95 | 12 |
| 8 | Jeremy Gallon, WR | MICH | 89 | 1373 | 15.4 | 84 | 9 |
| 9 | Jamison Crowder, WR | DUKE | 108 | 1360 | 12.6 | 75 | 8 |
| 10 | Chandler Jones, WR | SJSU | 79 | 1356 | 17.2 | 77 | 15 |
A few good teams on each list but also a lot of not so good teams.
I look forward to the day when we have enough talent that we don't have to rely so heavily on one player to produce offense.