This week at The Daily Gopher, we are paying a visit to Minnesota’s running back room and taking a closer look at the candidates to be key contributors in the #GopherGroundGame.
Rodney Smith and Shannon Books — a combined 1,294 career carries, 6,343 career rushing yards, and 49 career rushing touchdowns — are gone, signaling a changing of the guard. The good news is that Mohamed Ibrahim, with one 1,000-yard rushing season under his belt as a redshirt freshman, returns to lead a pack of young running backs.
Ibrahim’s breakout game was against Ohio State as a redshirt freshman.