Luke Staley - 2001 BYU Highlights

Best season from a BYU running back ever. Won the Doak Walker Award in 2001. BYU needed him to stay in 2002 though...

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[icetre4]

Enough with the Luke Staley man-crush! He is the most overrated BYU RB of all time. His speed was pretty good and he had good hands, but when I watch the highlights I notice he never jukes anyone. He has no lateral movement. The blocking is amazing. He benefited greatly from Doman being an option threat. He also had a great season against one of the worst schedules of all time. Jamal Willis, Brian Mckenzie, and Ronney Jenkins were all better and would have easily put up better numbers

[Gamebox27]

Jenkins was small. He never did anything beyond kick returner in the NFL. Willis was tall and not that fast but a good receiver out of the back field. I don't remember any breakaway plays like Staley had. Don't remember much about McKenzie. Why didn't you mention Lakei Heimuli and Pete Van Valkenberg for completeness. BYU backs always have flaws. The more well-rounded backs go to places like Ohio State, USC, Alabama, etc.

[scott84067r]

Cool video but where is the sound?

[Gamebox27]

@scott84067r WMG happened.

[mooseclamps]

His skin color? He had many knee problems throughout his college career, and his knee got jacked a few months before the draft. Not to mention the guy clearly was doping

[Gamebox27]

Doping seems to be an NFL requirement since the 80s. What's your point?

[murat8080]

He had the same knee injury as Willis Mcgahee. Except Mcgahee actually got a shot after he recovered.

Staley was cut. A white guy just aint worth a roster spot apparently, even if he is a doak walker award winner.

[64bsl]

i hate to say it but i think your right how many times ive hard people say that the big fast white guys almost always get put at line backer instead of running back, one of the few exceptions was Jacob hester for LSU in 2007 and what did he do? Only rush for like 140 yards on Ohio States #1 defense and rush for over a 1000 yards in the SEC without lossing a single fumble. The sigma against white running backs is the same stigma against black coachs both are wrong and need to be corrected.

[thesuperbeast46]

NOBODY WAS HAVING A MAN CRUSH ON ANYONE!

[88lostprophets88]

most of these runs came when Crowton came on the scene, and he was a more developed player NOT BECAUSE the scheduling, and to think because the rest of the team had high calibre players staley was just get ball and run. You obviously never carried a football more than once in your lifetime because its never the same that is pure athleticism to make those runs you ignorant prick

[jscorn]

BTW - Stayley got cut but the Lions. (SGC)

[KingmanIII]

@dwid1984

I agree that he deserved a more legit shot at the NFL than he was given, but Staley had knee problems for far longer than one season; he underwent something like five surgeries throughout high school. He really should've used his senior season to prove that he could stay healthy (the broken leg he suffered against MSU was very unfortunate).

[burner27]

He isnt slow by any means. But top end to me is top 5% of backs

[dwid1984]

@burner27 rarely does someone run a 4.2 at the combine, and only a handful of 4.3's 4.5 is good for a rb, but Staley ran a 4.4 which is pretty elite.