Northwestern running back Justin Jackson just laughs when he’s asked what kind of toll his 261 carries -- the second-most in the nation -- have taken on his body. Then he warns his answer is going to sound flat-out strange.
“Honestly, I feel a lot better now than I did in the beginning of the year,” he said, laughing again, because he knew just how backward that sounded. “Which is weird. It’s a weird phenomenon. I just feel better with the pounding I get. My body just reacts well to it, I guess. I don’t know.