(On some shocking positive surprises about guys who were available) Schneider: “No, I think it was such a long wait for us. We had so many big gaps.”
Carroll: “I was hanging on Chris Carson. He’s a guy that I found looking through the stuff late in the draft, kind of like we’ve done over the years. I really love this guy because he is so physical and tough the way he ran. You haven’t heard a whole lot about him, he hasn’t run the ball a lot. But when he did, he, to me, made a great statement of his style and a style that we really covet.”
Schneider: “The second half of the season he really came on.”
(On whether Carson could be similar to Thomas Rawls) Carroll: “It’s really the same kind of formula. I kind of caught on to him late. I fell in love with how tough he is, and how aggressive he is. That’s something that kind of falls in that same category, and we didn’t want to miss him. There was a lot of activity around him, we thought, so we got him with that last shot, there.”
(On Carson’s lack of fumbles) Carroll: “That’s all part of it. He’s really aggressive.
He hammers it. I think you guys are really going to like him when you see him.”
Schneider: “His plate wasn’t totally full, he had 80-some carries, but when he came back at the end of the season, you could see the urgency, and that’s what Pete is talking about.”
Carroll: “There’s a little story there. He was one of the top junior college kids coming out when he wound up going to Oklahoma State, and he didn’t make the transition the first year. It took him some time and then he got banged up going into his last year. So, when he finally got his chance, he really tore it up.”
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