Alex Smith played in 24 games for Urban Meyer at Utah and ran the ball a total of 284 times in those 2 years.
So far for Tebow: 2007 RUSHING Team Cl G Att Yds Avg TD Long Yds/G ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Darren McFadden..... AR JR 3 86 519 6.0 4 56 173.0 2. Terry Grant......... UA FR 4 73 483 6.6 5 47 120.8 3. Felix Jones......... AR JR 3 40 358 8.9 1 73 119.3 4. Rafael Little....... UK SR 4 62 435 7.0 3 38 108.8 5. Green-Ellis,BJ...... UM SR 4 88 408 4.6 1 34 102.0 6. Tim Tebow........... UF SO 4 70 358 5.1 7 25 89.5 2006 Tebow - 14 games 89 atts 469 yds 5.3 ypa 8 TD 33.5 ypg So, cummulative = 159 atts 1,127 yds 15 TD 5.2 ypatt
Wow, impressive numbers and a large part of what makes him so great. I don't understand how anyone can "not be sold" on his ability as I had someone tell me this weekend. I think he's a better dual threat QB than Pat White or even Michael Vick. He is quite comparable, IMO, to Vince Young in his last season at Texas. He has size, speed, passing ability, and the most impressive thing to me, like VY, he has great vision when running the football. That vision allows him to run in a controlled, precise manner. That being said, maybe he can avoid injury but I think Meyer can take steps to protect what he has invested in Tebow a little better.
The raves continue and the expectations seemingly increase: http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10367964 Tim Tebow has started just four games at Florida, but soon the comparisons will begin. He's an unusual quarterback, so the comparisons will be all over the place. What the hell, I'll put some out there right now: Tebow runs bullishly, like Bronko Nagurski. He throws an awfully accurate deep ball, like a young Jim Plunkett. And then there's that jump-pass, circa Y.A. Tittle. Those are all well and good, but if you want the perfect Tim Tebow comparison, I've got it. Before I give you the name, I'm going to give you a hint: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, d---heads ... they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. That's right. Tim Tebow is college football's Ferris Bueller. Has college football ever seen a player like this? Name another guy who was so cool and so square. So desired, yet so virtuous. So good and so ... good. Maybe Navy's Roger Staubach back in the 1960s. Maybe not. Tebow is a throwback and a glimpse of the future, retro and cutting edge, all in the same package. I'm talking on and off the field. He's all things to all people, a position that would make him irritating if he weren't sincere. So how do I know he's sincere? Because he has been embraced by people from all walks of Florida's college life. If he was insincere, he'd have been sniffed out by now. Tebow has been on campus since graduating high school early in January 2006, and in the 19 months since he has passed every smell test. Teammates adore the guy. Tebow's roommate is Tony Joiner, a safety who arrived with multi-colored beads in his hair and talked trash and skipped classes. Last year UF coach Urban Meyer kicked Joiner off the team, then reinstated him, then had him move in with Tebow. Instant odd couple. Of course they get along famously. When Joiner gave Tebow a sideline kiss last week against Tennessee, bloggers went nuts. Days later Tebow was still trying to figure out the fuss. He said Joiner had kissed him before. Even beaten opponents like the guy. When he was a home-schooled student playing football for St. Augustine's Nease High, Tebow's college choice came down to Florida or Alabama. He chose Florida, and they're so angry in Alabama that they ... named a bill after him. A nice bill. The Tim Tebow Bill is the piece of legislation designed to allow home-schooled students access to high school activities in their district. When it becomes law, bill supporters note on the website TimTebowBill.com, "it will be known as the Tim Tebow Act!" Religious freaks love the guy. Tebow, the son of Christian missionaries, was born during a mission trip to the Philippines and returns almost every year for mission work himself. He leads a team Bible study and speaks to churches and elementary schools, and this summer at a state prison he helped lead almost 200 convicts to Christianity. The converted convicts wanted to touch Tebow. Prison officials said no. Tebow insisted -- and so it shall be. Scores of convicts laid their hands on Tim Tebow. True story. Lustful coeds love the guy. This year they've congregated outside his apartment. Last year they gathered outside his dorm room until school officials called campus security to disperse the hormonal mob. There are multiple amateur videos of Tebow speaking engagements available on the Internet, and the most shocking one shows Tebow walking into a room full of college girls who squeal like Usher has just flowed into the room. Celebrities are impressed with the guy. Country singer Kenny Chesney was singing in Gainesville in February when he spotted Tebow in the audience and invited him on stage. Together they sang She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy. A few months later, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist stopped by campus to shake hands and made it a point to meet Tebow. And nobody can stop the guy. He's a quarterback who completed more deep passes (seven) in his first three starts this season than Heisman candidate Chris Leak completed for the Gators all of last season, but two runs define Tebow. The first came during his sophomore year of high school, during a game in which he had suffered a broken leg -- not a hairline fracture, but a nasty break. Nobody knew how bad the injury was, which is why Tebow was still on the field late in the game, running 29 yards for the game-tying touchdown. The other run came during his freshman season at Florida, a fourth-and-one sneak in the fourth quarter against Tennessee. The entire stadium knew what was coming, and still the Volunteers couldn't stop the true freshman. Tebow grew his legend with his legs, but he will make a fortune with his arm. When he was 7 he was already stinging his father's hands with footballs. In his first Florida spring game, when his classmates were still in high school, he was 15-for-21 for 197 yards to outplay Leak, who was entering his fourth year as the Gators' starter. In his first career start, this season against Western Kentucky, he was 13-for-17 for 300 yards and three touchdown passes. Two weeks later he threw for 299 yards against Tennessee. Saturday against Ole Miss he threw for 263 yards and ran for 166. This is why people create websites in his honor. At TimTebowFacts.com, the authors have accumulated testimonials. Says one: Tim Tebow can eat five times his body weight in tigers. Says another: Tim Tebow's house does not have doors; it has walls that he walks through. Says another: Tim Tebow once got blackjack with one card. Which is silly. Tebow doesn't eat tigers. He tames them with a single look, then sends them out to the world to do his bidding.
I wonder if we could get somebody to verify that.....quite an impressive pair - by any definition - in any event! 8)
I don't think that is Tebow's sister. :} Tebows backup this season is Cam Newton who is 6 ft 6 inches tall and weighs about 240 pounds. Terry, I don't think Alex Smith ran as much as Tebow is running this year and as said above Meyer wants to cut back on his rushing attempts per game. I believe they want to have him run 10 -15 times per game as opposed to the 27 times he ran last game. Thanks for the article Gaterz I had missed that one.