Quick Quote from CAR RB coach about GL back theory...

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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/15168524.htm

this is article is really about Shelton, and how he's basically on the bubble right now, but goes on to say how if he became a GL back it might provide job security:

The Panthers might ask Shelton to handle goal-line and short-yardage situations and that could create job security. At 6-foot-1 and 246 pounds, he's easily the biggest running back on the roster.

 

But Jim Skipper (RB Coach), says this:

That's what everybody assumes just because of size," Skipper said. "There's nothing to indicate that he shouldn't be or couldn't be, but we've got good competition there and I think all backs can be short-yardage backs. You don't just have to be a big bruiser, you want a guy that can get it done. What we try to do here is mix it up with different personnel groups.

 

 

which doesn't really mean much, but any insight into the running game of the Panthers may prove insightful considering that situation is still kind of cloudy w/ Foster & DWilliams, and not to forget the aforementioned 2005 2nd rd. pick of Shelton...

 

 

here's another important quote from a separate article in the Observer about DWilliams:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/spo...rs/15168535.htm

 

Williams is asked to do things he did not at Memphis, such as catch passes and block, and Henning praises the rookie's progress at each.

 

i think alot of people forget that he was just a runner - and was not used as an out-of-backfield recieving option. I think people just assume that because of his smaller size he was, or will be, used more like a BWestbrook... which he never was in college - he was a pure runner while he put up those 7,500 yds...