Syracuse football focused on improving run game in 2018

It’s not news to Syracuse Orange football fans that the team has struggled to run the ball in recent seasons.

SU’s gone five straight years without a 1,000-yard rusher, and while Dino Babers’s offense uses the run game as table-setter for downfield passing, that hasn’t necessarily been the case in two years with the Orange. Though they’ve managed to improve from year one (115th in rushing yards per game) to year two (70th).

Still, a lot of those gains are courtesy of quarterback Eric Dungey, versus the running back duo of Dontae Strickland and Moe Neal — though we saw some glimmers of hope last year from both. The two players are aware of the need to get more out of the rushing attack this…