Danny Woodhead article

[kchusker_chris]

Good read - Nebraska boy.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/12/08/danny.woodhead/index.html?eref=sihp

[mmmtodd]

Good read - Nebraska boy.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/12/08/danny.woodhead/index.html?eref=sihp

 

i really get tired of the 'overachiever' talk. it seems like a put down. realistically, every single player in the cutthroat NFL is an 'overachiever.' there are so many people fighting for each and every spot in the league that unless youre constantly giving 100%, youre out the door.

 

i mean, there are guys that are not 'big' all over the NFL that are great players. guys that didnt play division 1 ball.

[CENTEXHUSKER]

How could you not like this story, best of luck dude.

[NUance]

It's only on a football field where Danny Woodhead weekly stands out as the most unlikely of highlighters, etched against a panorama of enlarged NFL humanoids. Where he regularly ducks beneath the swat of defensive linemen, a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier, to churn out a few more yards. Where blitzers don't even see him until he blocks them to the ground. Where he skirts out of the backfield, outruns a linebacker, jukes a cornerback, and gains another 10 yards.

 

Where, as he did on Monday night on his 50-yard shovel-pass, backbreaking scamper against the Jets, you just know New York's defenders were thinking, "This troll couldn't possibly move this fast." Or when, against the Colts a few weeks ago, a few minutes after skittering for a 36-yard touchdown, he made the tackle on the ensuing kickoff, playing special teams, flattening Brandon James the way a bowling ball on amphetamines might flatten a chipmunk on Quaaludes.

 

Ha ha! Now THAT is a good sports quote.