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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 821094, member: 874"] I have to eat some crow on Smith. He's been better this year than last year and made improvements I didn't think he'd make. Last year I thought he went down far too easily after contact for a guy his size. This year he's been a tougher runner and has had to get more yards on his own with fewer gaping holes to run through. His lower production this year is at least partly due to an OC that refuses to give him the ball as much as he should. We should have been riding him until he collapsed this year. Having said all of that, I don't think it's a good draft move to leave. If he's just ready to be done with college, that's fine, hopefully the reduced number of carries aren't part of the reason. If his ultimate goal is the NFL, he'd probably be better served to come back next year when we'll hopefully have a more functional offense and an OC that has a better feel for what he's doing. [/QUOTE]