Syracuse football 2021 position preview: Running backs

Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports Hopefully you enjoyed your July 4 weekend, because we’re officially in full swing with our Syracuse Orange 2021 football season previews — and will be throughout the next two months.

Along with “Get to Know” pieces and early opponent previews, we also started our position-by-position roster breakdown as well. Last week, we started with quarterbacks. This time around it’s:

Running Backs

Even with much of the roster succumbing to injury at one point or another, there was a position group that managed to persevere better than most. Part of that was a product of necessity, but the other was a case of young players rising to the occasion. In 2020, Syracuse’s initial…