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Syracuse Football: Top-two returning RBs have opted out, coach confirms

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As we all probably figured, Syracuse football running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard do not plan to play this season.

Syracuse football running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard, the top-two returning RBs from 2019, did not get included in the team’s first 2020 depth chart earlier this week.

That fueled speculation about the status of each of them for the fall campaign, and media reports since then have indicated that redshirt senior Adams and junior Howard planned to opt out of the 2020 stanza.

In his press conference following the Orange’s 31-6 defeat at the hands of No.