STANFORD, Calif. -- The NCAA single season all-purpose yardage record holder returns for Stanford at running back, and the Cardinal will also be breaking in a new quarterback in 2016.
Given those two pieces of information, the framework is clearly there for the attack to be a ground-heavy one.
But as excited as he is about a deep backfield that includes speedsters Christian McCaffrey and Bryce Love, Stanford coach David Shaw realizes that his team's ticket to contending for another Pac-12 championship will come through the air.
"We know people are going to load the box against us since we have a new starting quarterback," he said.