MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — While walking through West Virginia’s football facility last week, Wendell Smallwood was stopped by Lonnie Galloway, one of team’s assistant coaches.
“Do you believe me now?” Galloway asked. “About what I was telling you back in the spring?”
For months, dating to the team’s spring practices, coaches had told this Mountaineers junior running back that he was the team’s best offensive player. Then, it seemed like a reasonable claim about one of West Virginia’s more versatile athletes.
Now, as Galloway’s question was meant to imply, it’s hard to argue.
Smallwood has been the offensive heart of a resurgent Mountaineers team, and he enters a game today against Iowa State as one of the most productive running backs in Football Bowl Subdivision.