Given the RB's we have and Hunt, why no scrap the screen and throw the option into the playbook

[Czar]

We have what, 5 possible contributing RB's? The screen pass at this point is a lost cause as our WR's can't run it properly and Hunt can't throw it consistently enough to make it worth it. Given his legs and the available RB's we have, why not bring the option back? Put 3 RB's in the backfield, simple reads and decisions. Like what Auburn ran last year or, and god knows some will freak out about this, the type of options Deleone ran.

 

[Waterguy]

We have what, 5 possible contributing RB's? The screen pass at this point is a lost cause as our WR's can't run it properly and Hunt can't throw it consistently enough to make it worth it. Given his legs and the available RB's we have, why not bring the option back? Put 3 RB's in the backfield, simple reads and decisions. Like what Auburn ran last year or, and god knows some will freak out about this, the type of options Deleone ran.

I agree. That offense isn't used much these days, so defenses aren't familiar with defending it (eg our response to GT's option last season!)