Draft Watch: Bobby Rainey, Western Kentucky

Bobby Rainey (5071 205 4.49), RB, Western Kentucky, #3

A smaller back in stature, Rainey has been a large part of WKU offense serving as a workhorse and pounding the rock up the gut of defenses. Considered undersized when compared to your prototypical NFL running back, Rainey would be the last one to know it, making a conscious commitment to run inside first. Keeping it between the tackles often creates deceptiveness as it can be hard to see Rainey running behind mammoth offensive linemen and has the lower leg strength to push the pile as a downhill runner. However, Rainey also displays the vision and patience to understand that if the middle gets clogged to bounce it outside where he can utilize his speed and quickness. When in the open field Rainey gets slippery and his elusiveness will create a

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