Name : Travis Etienne
School: Clemson
Size: 5’10/ 205lbs
I Rate all RB’s on a scale of 1-10
- Footwork: 8.5
- Vision: 9
- Patience: 8
- Elusiveness: 8
- Contact Balance:8
- Break Tackle Ability (when a defender has a hand on him): 9
- Game Speed: 9
- Burst: 9.5
- Hands: 9
- Route Running: 7
- Run Toughness (Fight in the Dawg): 7
I also tally the following:
Games Watched: 12
Successful Stiff Arms: 3
Successful Spin Moves: 6
Trucks: 5
Shed Tackles (Mainly Arm Tackles): 59
Evaded Tackles: 30
Fumbles (Lost or not): 0
Pass Block Losses: 6
Pass Block Wins: 24
Fall Forwards: 64
College Stats:
- 2017- 107 Att./ 766 Yards/ 13 TDs
- 2018- 204 Att./ 1,658 Yards/ 24 TDs
- 2019- 207 Att./ 1,614 Yards/ 19 TDs/ 37 Rec./ 432 Yards/ 4 TDs
- 2020- 168 Att./ 914 Yards/ 14 TDs/ 48 Rec./ 588 Yards/ 2 TDs
NOTES:
Passing Game (Inc. Blocking)
- Can line up as outside receiver.
- Returns Kicks as well
- Comes back to ball in scramble drills
- Does make some mistakes in Pass Pro, Both takes wrong guy and whiffs on the wrong guy
- Can make multiple defenders miss at once
- Asked to pass block a lot in 2019
- Good after catch
- Usually finds soft spot in zone coverages
- Can block well in the screen game
- Also capable of incredible plays in Pass Pro.
- Good vision
- The L’s in Pass Pro were huge lineman
- Can pancake LB’s in Pass Pro
- Always open underneath
- Can stretch the seam
- I like his patience in screen game
- Has mythical 2nd gear
- Fantastic security blanket
- Can pass in trick plays
- He combines great patience with great burt at the right time
- Threat to the outside
- Good field position awareness
- Catches away from the body
- Good awareness OVERALL in scramble drills
- Good OVERALL awareness in screen game
- Asked to mainly to chip block in Pass Pro
- Enough can’t be said about his explosiveness on the outside
- Freezes time in Play Action
- Ran a ton of routes out of RB position\
- Elite East and West quickness
- He’s not the best blocker in the world. However, I don’t think it’s a liability.
- the thing with his pass blocking is you want him to hold it, but you don’t know what coaches asked him to do though
- Ran a nice 9 route at the X position during Miami 2019 game
- Great deceptive skills in the screen game
Rushing Game
- Can make multiple defenders miss at once
- Good vision
- Has THE mythical 3rd gear
- He combines great patience with great burst at the right time
- Good field position/situational awareness
- Enough can’t be said about his explosiveness on the outside
- Elite East and West quickness
- Love his lateral speed
- Top speed is incredible
- 55 yarder vs. OSU in 2019 is a WTF Run
- Takes what defense gives him usually
- Good at draw plays
- Can both outrun and get caught by DB’s
- Pretty spin move
- Runs away from LBs and DL. Can be caught by DB’s who take perfect angle
- Smooth runner
- Slippery
- Sets up juke well with quick stutter step
- Patiently lets people over pursuers to run by before he hits the gas
- No stranger to running out of shotgun
- Tough runner
- Get’s skinny in the hole
- Deceptively fast
- Can break ankles
- The burst he has when he cuts back is incredible
- Runs a little too up and down. Needs to drop those pads
- Not great making early penetration miss
- Not afraid to push the pile forward
- Super deceptive feet
- Great in the draw game
- Wish he was better in tight space, but nothing he can’t correct
- Hole closes and he has the skills and awareness to get to outside
- Forces bad angles from defenders to make shedding tackles easier
- Took a LB 15 yards on his back
- Shakes one man off while making another man miss
- Picks holes and hits jets
Effort
- Tough runner
- Takes 2 people to tackle him normally
- Keeps legs moving
- Very tough runner
- Has no problem taking on 3 tacklers for one yard
- Answers blown up runs with nice runs
- Makes small creases work
OVERALL: 85/100
RB Type: All around
Upside: Top 10
I would take him mid 1st in Super Flex leagues with ease. He’s a complete back who is a playmaker at every level.