He can’t create anything on his own. He’s fast, but he’s never seemed particularly agile (to me). He’s strong, but he doesn’t really break tackles (at least not in the many games I’ve seen). To me, he’s only as good as the blocking he gets. At the end of the Wake Forest game, for instance, NU needed a first down to ice the game. They had it 3rd-and-2, gave it to Lucky, and he followed his blocker right into the arms of the tackler. 4th-and-2, did the exact same thing. In neither run was it a case of 6 guys ganging up on him. Instead of icing the game, they gave the ball back to Wake, and Wake almost drove down and stole the game away.

To me, NU does a good job of getting Lucky into space (particularly on screens) and getting him a lot of yards that way. He’s a good weapon to have, and like I said, he’s probably the #4 back in a talented offensive league-nothing wrong with that. It’s just that…Murray is not only faster but can dodge tacklers much, much better. Woods-albeit a bit of a risky pick—is the perfect small back in Tech’s system, either darting in and out between their huge linemen and taking advantage of their huge splits, or catching the same types of check-down screens that Lucky takes advantage of. As for Goodson…he runs a lot like Lucky, only with slightly better speed and agility.

Those are my reasons…though I’m pretty sure you might disagree… :-)