Running back: Byron Hanspard
The reason why: Hanspard could have chosen any school in the country coming out of DeSoto High School, but picked Tech.
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A speed back operating in the I-formation, Hanspard outran defenders on the way to a school record 4,219 rushing yards. He was never better than in 1996, when he became major-college football’s sixth 2,000-yard rusher and Tech’s second Doak Walker Award winner.
He tarnished his image when he quit going to class after making up his mind to skip his senior year to enter the NFL.