When Tony Alford was asked Friday for his first impressions of Dallan Hayden, Ohio State’s running backs coach described his new pupil as someone who “goes 100 miles an hour.”
For a freshman running back going through his first practices at the collegiate level, that can be both a good and a bad thing.
“We're not going to have to ask him to go faster,” Alford said. “Sometimes we got to try to get the reins on him and back him down a little bit and slow him down. But that's probably the thing that’s impressed me the most is he goes full speed.