BLOOMINGTON – First playfully, then seriously, Indiana’s penchant over the last half decade for producing NFL-quality running backs has become a piece of the program’s identity.
But is that “Running Back U” tag, once tongue-in-cheek but now perhaps less so, in danger this fall?
Devine Redding, the latest of the Hoosiers’ 1,000-yard rushers, is gone for the NFL. Tasked with finding his replacement among a talented but unproven menagerie of players, new position coach Mike Hart is tripling down on reality, heading into the preseason.
“It’s open,” Hart said of his position battle, before repeating that pronouncement twice more.