A running back . The cog that makes the wheel turn . It ' s great you mention McFadden . How many games has he played this season ? Oh right the injury prone running back has been injured . You must of thought AlMo would help us . The guy who ' s declined every year of his career , his best being with RG 3 who teams had to respect in the read option . So we had a guy who ' s been injured all year , a guy who when he runs is CLEARLY not as effective as Zeke , and Dunbar . We have an offensive line that is elite so why not put an elite back behind them ? Zeke made us elite . There is no argument you can possibly have against that . That McFadden argument was completely weak . Look at his yards per carry . I think it was something like 2 . 3 or something just as abysmal . He gained yards because what the hell else could we do ? My favorite was the AlMo is a zone back and that ' s what we run ! He will be amazing ! !! Wrong . AlMo never ran zone in college . He ran it one year successfully in a read option offense .