According to 247Sports’ Brad Crawford, the Iowa Hawkeyes will square off against the nation’s most explosive wide receiver or running back in the 2022 college football season.
Obviously, Iowa will see plenty of talented playmakers throughout its trek in Big Ten conference play. The Michigan Wolverines have a pair of running backs they really like in Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards. Corum nearly rushed for 1,000 yards last season and he registered 11 rushing touchdowns.
Of course, Wisconsin boasts one of the best running backs in the league in talented sophomore Braelon Allen. He finished with 1,268 rushing yards and 12 scores last season and he racked up 530 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns in a three-week stretch of games against Rutgers, Northwestern and Nebraska last November.
During last season, Allen also had a string of seven consecutive 100-plus rushing yard games starting with the Badgers’ Oct. 9 date at Illinois through Wisconsin’s 35-28 win over Nebraska on Nov. 20.
Also on Iowa’s schedule is a road date on Nov. 19 at Minnesota that will feature Golden Gophers running back Mo Ibrahim. Ibrahim has rushed for 3,003 yards and 33 touchdowns in his career and he’s back after sustaining a ruptured Achilles tendon in Minnesota’s opener against Ohio State last season.
In Crawford’s ranking of the top eight skill players in all of college football entering 2022, none of those names cracked the list. Instead, a pair of players from other Big Ten programs made the cut. After what happened in the Ohio State Buckeyes’ memorable 48-45 rally over Utah in the Rose Bowl, it shouldn’t be any surprise to see the No. 1 skill player on Crawford’s list.
Naturally, it’s a Buckeye atop Crawford’s list. Which skill player is it and what does the rest of his top eight look like entering 2022?
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR – Ohio State Buckeyes
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