Jeanty could sign up with Gordon, Penny and more on list of

• J.J. Post, ESPNOct 5, 2024, 11:08 AM ET Junior running back Ashton Jeanty has accumulated 845 rushing yards through four games of the 2024 season. He has hurried for 190 backyards or more in 3 games, the lone exception being Boise State’s 56-14 blowout win over FCS Portland State, when Jeanty brought simply 11 times and didn’t tape a touch in the 2nd half.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated If his rate continues, Jeanty– and his 10.3 yards per carry– will be in exclusive business. Currently on track to end the routine season with 2,535 rushing yards, Jeanty looks most likely to sign up with a list of 4 college football players to have collected over 2,000 regular-season hurrying yards in the previous decade.The players

he could be joining:

Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin, 2014

Gordon had 2,260 yards on the ground across 12 regular-season games in 2014, finding completion zone 26 times. By the time he ended up postseason play, it was the second-most prolific rushing season by a college player.Gordon’s Wisconsin

Badgers grew as he published computer game numbers. The Badgers shook off an opening-week loss to the LSU Tigers to win 10 of their last 11 regular-season games, highlighted by a dominant 59-24 knocking of No. 16 Nebraska, where Gordon raced to 408 rushing backyards and 4 goals in Camp Randall Stadium.Rashaad Penny, San Diego State, 2017 Rashaad Cent could not have had larger shoes to fill heading into his senior

season with the San Diego State Aztecs in 2017. Cent had actually flashed the previous year, impressing as the backup to one of the most dominant running

backs in college football history in Donnel Pumphrey. Not just did Cent match Pumphrey’s production, he actually enhanced on it.The senior built up 2027 regular-season hurrying lawns, averaging simply under 7.5 yards per carry. After having a hard time in losses to Boise State and Fresno State, Cent responded with a streak of 4 successive games with 200 hurrying backyards or more to end the regular season. Rashaad Cent had 2,027 regular-season rushing yards as a senior at San Diego State, one of just 4 players to hurry for 2,000 lawns or more in a regular season in the past years. Ray Carlin/USA TODAY Sports Tevin Coleman, Indiana, 2014 The Indiana Hoosiers struggled in 2014, but their star running back Tevin Coleman still shined.Coleman had never previously rushed for more than 1,000 yards in a season before 2014

, when the junior ran for 2036 lawns. Even as the Hoosiers labored, winning just one Big Ten game en route to a 4-8 final record, Coleman preserved an amazing consistency– surpassing the 100-yard mark on the ground in every game but one.D ‘Onta Foreman, Texas, 2016 As a sophomore in 2015, D’Onta Foreman brought 95 times for 681 backyards. In 2016, the Texas Longhorns fed him 323 brings, which he developed into

a remarkable 2028 rushing backyards in an otherwise down year for Texas.Though the 5-7 Longhorns missed out on a championship game, Supervisor delighted in a consistent and productive year. The junior ended up with eight games where he scored numerous times through the air or ground, and eclipsed the 150-rushing yard mark in

7 games.