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Originally Posted by LurchySoprano
I looked up Walker's USFL stats from his final season (85):
438 carries, 2411 yards, 5.5 ypc, 21 TD
37 catches, 467 yards, 12.1 ypc, 1 TD
Granted they played 18 games (I think?) but still lol.
Herschel is my God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghF12TX7kL0
Some notes from this video...
First play, straight up the middle, runs over two linebackers and is still fast enough to outrun the safeties to the corner from nearly a dead stop.
0:24 when he runs over Bill Bates. This was Herschel's first drive as a college football player. Bill Bates was a senior and would be an All-SEC LB that year. Hahahahahaha.
1:06 This is absolutely unreal... There are THREE defensive backs with a ridiculous angle on him, maybe ten yards in front. And he blows by them. Everytime I see this play, I have to watch at least three times.
2:27 He leaps over a pile for a first down, gets hit mid-air and lands on his feet, waltzes into the endzone.
It's really too bad his legacy isn't remembered the way it could have been because of the USFL thing. He was the first prototypical back who could run over linebackers easily and outrun cornerbacks. He did lead the NFL in rushing one year and total yards another, although his career was hampered somewhat by a team trading their entire soul for him.