STRENGTHS
Audric is a big, powerful running back with the speed and burst that makes him special. He’s a straight-line runner, and god help you if you happen to be in that line. Audric is a run-between-the-tackles type of running back and a square shoulders-to-the-line-of-scrimmage type of running back. He can and does have the speed to take the ball to the outside but his impact will be between the tackles for sure. He can break tackles at the line of scrimmage as well as in the open field. He reminds me a lot of former Rams/Steelers RB Jerome Bettis, (Look Him Up, I’m not your Mother. I can’t do everything for you.) Audric has the hands to catch the ball out of the backfield and this makes him a potential every-down back for the team that selects him.
CONCERNS
Audric might struggle figuring out who to block on third downs but trust me, if the QB points the blitzing player out to him, he will make the block and make sure the person blitzing remembers that block. He hasn’t done a lot of blocking but he can do it. As I stated before, he has the speed to go to the outside but that’s not where he gains his yards, he’s a between-the-tackle nightmare and not a finesse back or a juke-you or break-you-ankles type of back. He has the talent to be that style of back but it’s just not in his mental make-up. This may bother some teams who worry about the injury factor with the running back position and affect his draft-round status.
BOTTOM LINE: 1.82
Put Audric on an NFL team, and with a “Franchise” quarterback, and a Defensive Coordinator will have nightmares figuring out a game plan on how to stop that offense on third downs. Why you ask…because if there is a lightbox, Audric will run the ball through the tackles and gain the needed yards, and if that team loads the box up, that “Franchise Quarterback will make them pay, passing for the needed yards. All an offense has to do is double team a DT with the center and guard, and bring your Tight End in motion to double team the other DT with your other guard and the linebacker is one on one, with a runaway freight train all by his little…lonesome…self. Audric, on a team that has an average or better-than-average NFL quarterback, can carry the offense and make that team more competitive. Audric will give any team the threat of an impact running game and help control the middle of the field. By the way…don’t believe that 4.7 forty. Anyone who watches the film sees that Audric has 4.5 speed and matching burst…that’s if your “expert” bothers to watch the film. Those are the facts, they are undisputed.
