Provo • BYU running backs Lopini Katoa and Tyler Allgeier have read the posts on social media, sized up newspaper articles and fan blogs and heard a few things here and there about how the Cougars desperately need to find a workhorse running back to replace graduated ball-carriers Squally Canada and Matt Hadley and graduate transfer Riley Burt, who is leaving for Utah State.
“I believe I can be that guy,” said Katoa, a redshirt sophomore who had 76 carries for 423 yards and eight touchdowns last year before he suffered a torn meniscus that caused him to miss the Utah game and the bowl game.