Michigan’s running backs want more.
They want bigger plays, bigger runs and, consequently, to become bigger difference makers in games.
It was a position of very little experience last season. Zach Charbonnet was an early-enrollee freshman who underwent a knee procedure that kept him out of spring practice. Hassan Haskins had flip-flopped from running back to linebacker to running back. Christian Turner and Tru Wilson returned with some game experience, and Chris Evans, expected to be the heir apparent to Karan Higdon, sat out a year suspended by the university.
With Charbonnet and Haskins getting the bulk of work last season, Michigan finished 77th nationally in rushing, averaging 150.