In a totally unbiased view of your offensive preseason All Big Ten RB07OSU, I thought for about every one of the OSU players that they "haven't earned that yet." At the same time I don't doubt Posey and Herron and (to a lesser extent on the earning it bit) Pryor, etc. will be amazing. That is what makes this season so exciting.
If you look at collegefootballnews they rank our team highly but in their unit rankings we come out quite low. How can they say we have top ten running back or linebacker groups? They can't know. There isn't the data. But obviously, due to our high team ranking, they, like me, expect good things to happen.
I love seasons like this, seasons where I am so excited to see who our next breakout linebacker is, but expect to be fine at all three linebacker positions no matter what. This is a season where I trust in Herron and expect he may take a huge step to stardom, but I am also excited to see Berry and Saine and what they can do. Will Flash and Posey light up the field? Will Small put things together?
It is hard to pick OSU players for the preseason rankings right now, but I can't wait to see where we would place many of our guys at the end of the year. We are going to see one or two jersey numbers skyrocket in sales and may right now not even know which numbers those will be. . .