If Elijah Hood gets the ball as much as some of the country’s other great backs, his name will be mentioned right next to theirs.
North Carolina’s junior running back Elijah Hood has the opportunity, as well as the impressive skills, to be one of the nation’s premier running backs. It’s the dead of summer and hyperbole in college football is common around this time, but don’t underestimate Hood and his impact on the explosive Carolina offense.
He was recently named to the Maxwell Award watchlist, given out to the country’s best player. Simply put, there has been a lot of hype around Hood in Chapel Hill and, following a superb sophomore season, there’s no reason to believe he won’t find his name alongside the likes of Fournette, Cook, Chubb and McCaffrey come season’s end.