On Aug. 6, following one of Washington’s first practices of fall camp, Keith Bhonapha was asked an as-of-yet unanswerable question.
“Salvon (Ahmed) – you know how he’s built. He’s that Ferrari, Maserati, or whatever. Can he really take the pounding through the middle consistently, like Myles (Gaskin) did?”
“You’re going to have to ask me that in November, because we haven’t started the season yet,” said Bhonapha, Washington’s sixth-year running backs coach. “So I don’t know. So we’ll see. But I will say this: the guy is put together. He’s physical. He takes his exercising and all of that kind of stuff with (strength and conditioning coach Tim) Socha seriously.