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Football Notebook: Crowded Backfield A Good Problem To Have

Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – There’s a saying in life: You can never be rich enough or thin enough.

In sports, football, specifically, there’s another: You can never have enough running backs.

It’s a crowded backfield for Central Michigan in 2017. That can be a problem what with only one football to go around.

It’s a good a problem to have, and one that any coach would welcome.

“We do have a lot of depth, but in our room we stress a ‘band of brothers,’” first-year running backs coach Jayden Everett said.