'06 OH RB DeLone Carter (2005 Ohio Mr. Football/Syracuse Signee)

[Buckskin86]

Delone Carter turning his luck around at Syracuse
Big '09 debut a testiment to running back?s comeback

Syracuse running back Delone Carter was running a route in spring practice before his sophomore season in 2007. His true freshman year couldn?t have gone much better ? his 713 yards rank second in school history among freshman rushers and he was named a Sporting News Freshman All-American. Expectations were high for the Copley, Ohio, native, who was expected to play in a platoon backfield.

Then, his fortune took a turn. During that fateful route in spring practice, Carter planted his foot and extended his leg in front of him when a defender shoved him from behind, forcing his right leg completely out of socket.

?It happened like a freak accident in practice,? he said of the dislocated hip that ended his 2007 season before it began. ?During the spring, I was running a route and I was shoved in the back. I remember leaning over with my leg extended and my hip popping out. I remember trying to stand up and I couldn?t feel it and I just could feel it fall out.?

A promising sophomore season wiped out in spring practice. Carter was on crutches for a few months following successful hip surgery, enduring a long rehabilitation process just to walk again.

?The whole thing was hard to deal with,? he said. ?I was depressed right after my surgery ... I?d never been hurt like that. So it was just weird, laying up in my room and not being able to walk or anything. All that was a hard deal but you know, my family told me I could do it, my mom and my grandmother and the whole family was praying for me and helping me get through it.?

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[NJ-Buckeye]

Dumb... dumb... dumber...

Ohio.com - Ex-Copley star Carter suspended at Syracuse by Tom Gaffney, Journal staff writer

Delone Carter, the former Mr. Football in Ohio at Copley High School, might not be playing for Syracuse when the Orange meet the University of Akron on Sept. 4 at InfoCision Stadium in the 2010 opener.

Carter, a tailback and the leading rusher for Syracuse in 2009, has been suspended from school and from the team after being arrested for assault in April...

Police said Carter was riding in the car of teammate Ryan Gillum on campus early in the morning of Feb. 27, just hours after a basketball game between Syracuse and Villanova. After the car was hit by a snowball, Carter and Gillum got out of the car and confronted students they thought had thrown the snowball. Police allege that Carter threw one punch that hit William S. Hotaling, who suffered a concussion and facial bone fractures. Hotaling was not the person who threw the snowball, police said.

 

[Buckskin86]

Posted: Monday December 27, 2010
Delone Carter - a study in perseverance

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Delone Carter expects Syracuse to leave a lasting impression on Kansas State in the Pinstripe Bowl, and he anticipates being a big part of the reason.

"Once we get out there and I'm healthy and my o-line is healthy and our receivers are healthy, we're going to dominate,'' Carter said of Thursday's game at Yankee Stadium. "I know defenders don't like to get hit when it's cold out, and that kind of gets me excited. I won't mind the cold. Coming from Akron, Ohio, I'm used to it. It's not going to bother me. I'll go a little harder.''

That Carter, a fifth-year senior tailback, can go at all is a testament to modern medicine and the considerable grit he's displayed in his star-crossed career with the Orange.

The former Mr. Ohio Football ran for 713 yards in 2006 - the second-highest total for a freshman in Syracuse history - and the sky seemed to be the limit for the bruising runner.

Then, just like that, his budding career was put in serious jeopardy when he dislocated his hip while running a route during a 7-on-7 passing drill in spring practice 2007. The university's medical staff managed to get the ball of Carter's hip joint back in the socket. A day later, Dr. Wayne Eckhardt, an assistant team doctor, pinned the bone back during surgery to secure the hip socket.

"That was almost a career-ending injury,'' Carter said. "I just know God blessed me to heal up fast enough and come back and have the impact that I have on the game now.''

Carter watched the annual spring game that year from the sidelines while leaning on a pair of crutches and missed the entire 2007 season. That the Orange went 2-10 and ranked near the bottom of the Football Bowl Subdivision in rushing made rehab that much more difficult.

All the hard work to get back playing wasn't rewarded when Carter returned to the team in 2008. Although he dressed for every game, he suffered a hamstring injury early in the season and head coach Greg Robinson made Curtis Brinkley the centerpiece of the Syracuse run game.

Carter finished the season with only 23 carries but averaged 5.9 yards, an indication that he was ready to make his mark at a school that has fielded some of the greatest runners in college football history.

And, despite a different sort of problem, he has.

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[stowfan]

Named Bowl MVP, 198 yards rushing!

 

[Buckskin86]

Copley product Carter gets to run with Colts
Syracuse graduate says the fourth-round call is 'definitely a relief'
By Marla Ridenour
Beacon Journal sports columnist
Published on Sunday, May 01, 2011

BEREA: Syracuse running back Delone Carter had been sleeping restlessly the past few nights.

So when the phone call came from the Indianapolis Colts around noon Saturday, Ohio's 2005 Mr. Football at Copley High School was napping.

''The phone rang and I heard a scream from the other room,'' Carter said.

The running back was selected by the Colts with the 22nd pick in the fourth round, 119th overall. About 15 people gathered at the home of his parents, April Carter-White and Robert White, to watch television and wait for the news. The group included several cousins and his grandmother, Naomi Carter.

''I had no idea what was in store emotionally and all that. It was definitely something else,'' Carter said by telephone a few minutes later. ''It's definitely a relief. It was up and down, up and down. Now it's like a weight is lifted off me.''

While it was an emotional moment, Carter said he didn't cry.

''I let my family do that for me,'' he said.

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