UNLV’s Tony Sanchez will continue to use backfield by committee

PASADENA, Calif. — Emmitt Smith appears to be safe, or at least that career rushing record of his in the National Football League. The game’s highest level is mostly past the time of workhorse running backs, where the allocation of carries is more evenly distributed behind just one star.

(Adrian Peterson, by the way, disagrees with all of the above.)

It’s no different in college and, for that, Tony Sanchez is thankful Saturday for the depth his roster appears to feature in the backfield. In routing Jackson State by 50 points to open its season last week, UNLV had five backs gain at least 30 yards and three got 10 or more carries.

“The holes were big,” said sophomore starter Lexington Thomas,…