In terms of his NFL potential, he has a chance to be the best running back this state has ever produced. And I think if he has a good career, he's got a chance to rank up with anybody at any position who ever came out of this area.

In terms of his NFL potential, he has a chance to be the best running back this state has ever produced.

In high school, he was a man playing amongst boys. He was 215 pounds playing running back. He was bigger than some of the linemen blocking for him. He wasn't a lot of fun to hit in high school.

Thomas was running the ball well. I didn't get much of a chance.

Still, I always felt I had an outside chance because I had been training well. I have been running 100 miles a week until the last two weeks. Then I settled down to long, easy running. I felt the spark and spring coming back to my legs.

Then when he got a chance to be a running back, in the Cincinnati game, he did very well. In this league, you've got to do that about 100 games in a row.