Ay, There’s the Chubb: Is the Latest Star in Georgia’s Running Back Pipeline Built to Last?

This is a story about a star running back at Georgia, which means that it is also, on some intrinsic level, a story about Herschel Walker. It’s impossible to avoid: In his three years, Walker so thoroughly embodied the ideal college workhorse that in the three-plus decades since his last carry in a red-and-black uniform, his shadow over the position has only grown. At some point, possibly before he even left campus, that shadow became a permanent feature of the landscape, looming over aspiring recruits and proven commodities alike: The best of the post-Walker tailbacks in Athens include two consensus All-Americans,¹ six first-round draft picks,² and a future NFL MVP, all of whom register in the imagination as mere footnotes by comparison.