After opening the season with three straight 100-yard rushing games, Anthony Grant was thoroughly bottled up by the Oklahoma Sooners to the tune of just 36 yards on 13 carries. it would have made total sense for Nebraska football fans to worry that Grant’s season was about to become extremely pedestrian.
Then he ran for 136 yards on 32 carries against Indiana. It was a workman like effort by Grant who averaged 4.3 yards per rush but whose longest run of the night was 17 yards. It was the kind of performance that Nebraska football fans haven’t seen all that often out of the team’s featured back.
On the season, Grant now has 600 yards rushing. That’s the sixth highest total on the season and while he’s also got the third most carries of any back in the country, he’s clearly one of the best talents in college football this year.
Forgetting the feel good story that is Grant, who started the season as someone that the staff didn’t think had really separated himself from the field, he’s a real offensive weapon for the Huskers when the passing game isn’t working.
While Casey Thompson has had himself his own productive season, there have been times when the Nebraska football aerial attack has sputtered out. It’s nice to see that Grant can then put the team on his back and carry it across the goal line, both figuratively and literally.
Grant is not only well on his way to 1,000 yard season but he seems like he could get right up there as far as best season by a Nebraska Cornhuskers running back in quite some time.