We recently saw the portal produce several good backs who might have been Hokie Hall of Fame material, but one good performance in one losing/par season is not enough to be competitive in the vote getting. That’s a real problem when the coaching staff goes out to recruit top notch players from high school and the transfer portal. Some of the problem has been that since the 2011 season, the running game has been mostly centered around a big fast running QB with some support from a tailback that does more of odd and end blocking assignments and occasional dive plays into piles of humanity at the line of scrimmage. No one better has been spotted on the roster, and the names of Hokie greats like Kevin Jones, Lee Suggs, Ryan Williams, Darren Evans, Mike Imoh, and the aforementioned David Wilson in over a decade. The truth is that we haven’t had a good half-back based ground game since David Wilson departed for the NFL. Of late, the running back position has been a problem for Virginia Tech. We also know that we’ve had a couple of good seasons each for some decent collegiate level players who produced enough and made few enough mistakes to keep the team in the game and season standings. Virginia Tech has rarely had a superstar quarterback, and historically we’ve seen that when it had one it was an exciting treat.
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In the first article of the roster review series, we focused on the most important offensive position, in fact the most important position on the field, the Quarterbacks.