The dreaded hamstring injury is never a good one, usually keeping running backs off the field for indefinite periods of time, sometime weeks, sometimes entire seasons. Certainly not the case with Dalvin Cook, just shaking it off along with any would-be University of Louisville tacklers on Saturday.
Playing in obvious pain, with his trainers greeting him on the sidelines between touchdowns, Cook would make all the sharp cuts without missing a beat, galloping for 163 yards and two touchdowns in Florida State’s 41-21 win over Louisville in Tallahassee.
Cook collected all but 25 of those yards in the second half, with the UofL defense having held Florida State to zero net rushing yards in the first 20 minutes.