Go back and watch highlights of DT. He was a talent never before seen at KSU. He was our offense while here and carried an otherwise mediocre at best offense and a severely limited qb to success.
https://youtu.be/JAK-AcbF-f4?si=ZpCeugv4G4ghJtbf
sorry but DT does not look all that great based on those clips. Definitely not any better than Giddens
DT and giddens have different roles imo. DT was essentially the sole, workhorse RB. In 2010, DT had 9 games where he carried the ball 20+ times. In two of those games, he carried it 34+ times. In DJamer's career, he's had more than 16 carries one time (30 against UCF this season). We all love Carsy, but our offense was highly DT-centric.
Highlights of DT don't really do him justice, imo. Because he wasn't really a highlight running back. Looking back, his wildcat sets (which we ran quite a bit with him) were probably a precursor to the Klein offense. Would be fun to hear Klein, Snyder and Dimel chat about that. But his brutal effect was pretty similar to Klein's -- DT had that ability where he would turn what should have been a 0 yard gain into a 2 yard gain. Or a 3 yard gain into a 7 yard gain. Just a brutal drip drip drip of grabing a handful of yards beyond expected. Didn't really have the speed to bust off the eye-popping 30+ yarders very often, but had the brutal consistency to frustratingly maul teams down the field. Not to mention, he was running behind an offensive line that wasn't particularly ballyhoo'd.
Wow suggesting the CK QB-Power oriented offense was an evolution of the DT wildcat offense is a very astute point that will create shockwaves around the broader scholarship of K-State Football theory. This is revolutionary.
