{"id":79543,"date":"2025-05-26T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79543\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:04:09","slug":"greg-mcelroy-explains-ranking-for-isaac-brown-on-top-10-college-football-running-back-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79543\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg McElroy explains ranking for Isaac Brown on Top 10 college football running back list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg McElroy is extremely high on Louisville<\/a> running back Isaac Brown<\/a> entering the 2025 season. The ESPN analyst ranked Brown at No. 8 on his list of the top 10 RBs in college football after a huge year in his trust freshman season.<\/p>\n

McElroy pulled out an interesting nugget on the Cardinals back, explaining that he is just the second freshman along with Nick Chubb<\/a> to rush for more than 1,000 yards, 10 touchdowns and average seven yards per carry. Chubb left Georgia<\/a> as the second-leading rusher in program history and of course went on to enjoy a career in the NFL. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo pretty impressive,\u201d McElroy said. \u201cTotal numbers for him last year were 1,173 rushing yards, 11 touchdowns and 7.1 per. That\u2019s cooking. \u2026Now Chubb, of course in that offense, it was very run-heavy. It was fullbacks, two tight ends and while Sony Michel and others did take a little bit off his plate, there were some injuries that allowed Chubb that much opportunity to create great production. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a Louisville offense that was really, really good but they only rushed for 185 yards a game. So it\u2019s not like Louisville is a team that\u2019s gonna average 300 on the ground. Isaac Brown was there to kind of complement a passing attack and to create balance for Jeff Brohm and his offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown also managed to make an impact in the receiving game with 30 catches for 152 yards and a touchdown. He was ust a three-star recruit coming out of Homestead (FL) High School but certainly looks to be a gem of a find for the Louisville coaching staff. <\/p>\n

McElroy was certainly impressed by what he saw out of Brown in 2024, but noted there are still some areas where the running back could improve. As with all young players, adding a strength should be a major priority this offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing I\u2019ll be really curious to see is how much stronger will he get?\u201d the ESPN analyst said. \u201cWe know he\u2019s gonna continue to be able to create great speed. I know he\u2019s going to be able to break off big plays. But will he be able to continue to strengthen his lower body. Will he be able to be a little bit better in pass protection? Are those areas of growth that can help make him a more well-rounded back? <\/p>\n

\u201cI think those are clearly focus points of the coaching staff and you listen to the people that surround Louisville\u2019s program, those are the coaching points right now, but now it\u2019s about putting it into action and I\u2019m super confident that Brown will be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg McElroy is extremely high on Louisville running back Isaac Brown entering the 2025 season. The ESPN analyst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,22682],"class_list":{"0":"post-79543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-isaac-brown-24-homestead"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114572392631647429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}