The Detroit News · Jul 25, 2018
Six yards from leaving, Higdon is back with bigger goals
(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)Chicago — Six yards.
That’s what stood between Michigan running back Karan Higdon leaving for the NFL after last season and returning to play for the Wolverines this fall. There were other factors, but that Higdon finished with 994 yards, just missing the magical 1,000-yard rushing total was a big one, if only symbolically.
“I was very close. If I touched 1,000, I was leaving,” Higdon said this week during Big Ten media days.
“It wasn’t meant to happen. That’s how I look at it. It wasn’t meant to happen and it only put me in a better position to achieve that this year.”
