The 5 Most Successful Small-School Running Backs in the NFL
When NFL Draft season rolls around, most people look for big names from big programs in big lights.
They want their favorite team to announce a sexy pick from the big conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Sometimes, though, a small-school player can be just as exciting of a prospect. When they make a splash in the pros, it’s actually even more exciting than a big conference player doing it because the likelihood is much smaller for them.
We looked at the top non-FBS pass-catchers already, so who are the best small-school running backs to emerge since 2000 in terms of our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric?