Miami running back Duke Johnson is one of the best at his position in college football and most assume he’ll declare for the NFL draft at the end of the season, but as Lee Corso would say, “not so fast, my friend.”
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Duke Johnson is one of the best running backs in the nation in a loaded year at the position with the likes of Melvin Gordon, Tevin Coleman, James Conner and Todd Gurley before he was lost for the season with a torn ACL, dominating the competition and the headlines this college football season.
Johnson is eligible to declare for the NFL Draft as a junior and is presumed to declare for the draft and be a potential second-third round pick, but Johnson says it is not a foregone conclusion that he won’t return to Miami for his senior season.
As he approached the single-season rushing record at Miami and has passed the likes of Clinton Portis, Frank Gore, Lamar Miller and Willis McGahee and Edgerrin James on the career rushing list, Johnson told reporters that he will sit down and talk with his mother about how close he is to getting his degree and where he projects to be drafted.
Helping him make that decision will be the NFL draft advisory board who Johnson said he will file paperwork with to get a better idea where he will fall in the 2015 draft.
The 5-9, 206-pound Johnson is a smaller back, but you can’t knock his production. He has rushed for 1,431 yards this year and needs 41 yards to break Ottis Anderson’s school record and he has two games left to get 323 yards to break McGahee’s single-season rushing record of 1,753 yards.
Considering he suffered a season-ending injury last year and the short shelf life at the position, I would be shocked if Johnson doesn’t throw his name in for the 2015 draft where I think he’ll be taken on the second day.
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