From up high, the move didn’t look that effective.
Jake Bentley threw the little head fake. Somehow the defender bit, and the odyssey that was Bentley’s first college rushing touchdown (a 19-yarder) was underway.
“All the guys were making fun of me, saying it was the slowest juke move they’ve ever seen,” Bentley said. “I don’t care. It worked.”
He joked he might even show up in the running back room this week.
Bentley has always been understatedly athletic. He can move. He’s tall enough that his long strides let him get moving. But he was also highly valuable to the Gamecocks’ football team, and letting him take hits was not in the cards.