Running Back Production in Justin Fuente’s Offense, and the Impact on Recruiting

Jalen Holston was a 4-star recruit who could play a big role in 2018. (Photo by Ivan Morozov)

In last Friday’s Q&A, there was a question about how important running back production is to Virginia Tech’s future success.  I said on Friday that I was going to turn the subject into a full article this week, so that’s what we’re going to do today.

Justin Fuente has been a head coach or a co-offensive coordinator for the last nine seasons at the FBS level.

2009–2011: TCU Co-OC/QB Coach
2012–2015: Memphis HC
2016–2017: Virginia Tech HC

We’re going to take the running back production in all nine of those seasons and see if we can draw any conclusions.

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