UTEP tailback Deion Hankins enters this season in a fundamentally different position from his previous two years.
The Parkland alum, who graduated as El Paso's all-time leading rusher, is technically still a freshman, but one of the upshots of the strange freebie year of 2020 is that he enters this year as the most accomplished freshman UTEP's ever had.
In his second year in the program after a 2019 redshirt he averaged 4.9 yards per carry as the featured tailback and scored nine touchdowns in seven games.
Now he's in his third year, part of a small four-man tailback corps that nonetheless counts as the deepest spot on the roster.