West Virginia running back Justin Crawford rushed for 331 yards in a loss to Oklahoma in November. He led the Big 12 in yards per attempt in his first season out of junior college. The league's offensive newcomer of the year, he announced in January that he would return as a senior.
None of it, though, readied Crawford for his planned future quite like the four-hour shifts that ended at 7 a.m. as a UPS package handler or the midnight-to-2 a.m. workouts at Planet Fitness in the offseason before his second year at Northwest Mississippi Community College.