One week after carrying 13 times for 89 yards, he carried 11 times for 104. And it's not even that, exactly, though 9.5 yards per attempt is fantastic - he averaged 8 yards per try over 64 carries last season by the way; pretty good, right? - but it was how he carried the ball. And how he caught it, too, turning a team-high four grabs into 60 receiving yards, trailing only Austin Stogner's 75 on three. Stevenson's head coach criminally underplayed his efforts. "Low center of gravity, difficult to tackle , has some big-play ability," Lincoln Riley said, as if Stevenson's just a garden variety power back and not a 6-foot, nearly 250-pound make-them-miss-until-you-can't-and-have-to-run-through-them force of nature. Because that's what he's doing.It' s the craziest thing. To me, Stevenson's a glider. He's a huge running back, he delivers many more blows than he takes, he's not remotely fun to tackle, nor try to tackle. "He'a a bulldozer," said Nik Bonitto, Stevenson's linebacker teammate. Yet, if any body cares to notice, he's making people miss, too. Stevenson doesn't stop on dimes and he doesn't make hard, sharp cuts, but he makes subtle shifts, little moves at, say, the 40-yard line, that cause a defender waiting for him at the 35 to lunge for air . It's something. - Norman Transcript
(DS#14 RB) Sr/2021  RB Rhamondre Stevenson, Oklahoma
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