TheLastDispatch
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With Taylor being the starter what kind of time are Jones-Drew and Wimbush expected to see, and who's expected to get the goal line carries?
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Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Toefield is in the mix, too.
bjlmonster
Footballguy
Toefield will be the back-up and get the majority of carries if/when Taylor goes down, Wimbush is FB and will get some GL looks, while Drew may be the 3rd down back. IMO
Anonymous Internet User
Footballguy
stop calling him Jones-Drew. His name is Maurice Drew. Period.
shadyridr
Footballguy
Serious question: Where did Jones-Drew come from?
Anyway to answer your question I think you'll see Taylor get the majority of the carries with Toefield getting goalline carries and Drew getting 3-5 carries a game. When Taylor gets hurt Drew becomes the starter but Toefield gets more carries.
Anyway to answer your question I think you'll see Taylor get the majority of the carries with Toefield getting goalline carries and Drew getting 3-5 carries a game. When Taylor gets hurt Drew becomes the starter but Toefield gets more carries.
TheLastDispatch
Footballguy
what do you think taylors td situation will look like? similar to warrick dunn's when he had duckett in the backfield?
bjlmonster
Footballguy
He added it to honor is grandfather who raised him as a child.
Vintage_Football
Footballguy
Well, as a Freddie owner, i hope that with Greg Jones out, he's looking at nabbing a few more TD looks. Toefield,...??... I think that they'll soon see Drew become the apparent heir to the Jags throne,..5'7 3/4" or not.
Gandalf
Footballguy
Jones-Drew has always been his legal name, so it's more correct to call him Maurice Jones-Drew than Maurice Drew.
shadyridr
Footballguy
No way. Even Dunn got an occaisional goalline carry. IMO Taylor gets ZERO goalline carries. I predict 3 TDs.
Anonymous Internet User
Footballguy
incorrect. His birth name is Maurice Christopher Drew. that's it."During his junior season, Drew changed the name on the back of his jersey to Jones-Drew, in honor of his grandfather Maurice Jones, who died after suffering a heart attack watching Drew play against Rice University."His legal name isn't even Jones-Drew.
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firecrackerfreakshow
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TheLastDispatch
Footballguy
Isn't 3 TDs what Dunn had last year?
Gandalf
Footballguy
Really, then this article is wrong?http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/foo...ucla-drew_x.htm
UCLA's Drew makes his name, honors grandfather
By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — His legal name has always been Maurice Jones-Drew, but he never used it. "What grade-school kid wants a hyphen in his name?" says his mother, Andrea Drew. "So he just went by Maurice Drew."
Maurice Drew has rushed for 605 yards, is averaging 185.6 all-purpose yards and has 16 touchdowns this season. Years later, just as the diminutive, 5-8 Drew was making a big name for himself as the do-everything tailback at UCLA, he went and confused the issue by changing the name on his powder-blue jersey from "Drew" to "Jones-Drew." But it wasn't confusing to him. It made perfect sense. It was a fitting tribute to his grandfather, Maurice Jones. "He was my world," Drew says. "When I was assigned in school to write about the most important person in my life, it was my grandpa, no second thought about it. We just always kicked it off because we both loved sports."
Drew was named after his grandfather and, for much of his youth, he lived with him and his grandmother, Christina, in Pinole, Calif., near San Francisco.
His grandfather steered him into sports — first soccer, then basketball, then, when little Maurice stopped growing, football.
"He never missed a game, never missed a practice," Drew says.
It was his grandfather who helped guide Drew to De La Salle High, the legendary Bay Area football powerhouse in Concord, Calif.
That was fine with Drew's mother, who was more concerned about academics than football.
"It worked out for everyone, the best of both worlds," she says.
An emotional loss
As always, Drew's grandfather was there in the Rose Bowl for the Bruins' home opener this season against Rice on Sept. 10.
As the third quarter began, Drew's grandfather, 69, a retired probation officer who had a heart condition and had been diagnosed with diabetes last year, suffered a heart attack. He died on the way to Pasadena's Huntington Memorial Hospital.
Drew left the game immediately and got to the hospital in time to see his family gathered around, crying.
"I was numb," he recalls. "I really didn't feel anything for the next two or three days."
But he suited up for the next game, which would turn into a huge victory in the Rose Bowl against Oklahoma, with the name "Jones-Drew" on his back.
"My dad would have wanted him to play," Drew's mother says. "To him, it was a big game."
It was a big game for UCLA, too, a 41-24 victory that was the third of seven consecutive wins for the Bruins, who, at 7-0 and No. 6 in this week's Bowl Championship Series standings, are arguably the biggest surprise of the college football season.
Drew proud to sport dreads
LOS ANGELES — Modesty becomes Maurice Drew. So does his 'do.
Drew is easily recognized on the field for his speed, his elusiveness and the way he changes the scoreboard.
With his helmet off, the UCLA junior tailback presents one of college football's most distinguishable hairstyles.
He's been growing the dreadlocks since he arrived at UCLA, in the fall of 2003. They cascade over his ears, onto his neck. He bleaches the tips, so they're light brown.
"I always wanted them," he says. "But in high school, I always had a banquet or something to go to. I'd have to present myself, so I'd cut my hair. I could never get past that nasty Afro stage. When I got to UCLA, that didn't matter, so I started growing them."
The way Drew's playing, more banquets likely await. But, for now, the dreads are staying.
— David Leon Moore
Drew, a junior who packs 208 pounds onto his 5-8 frame, has been at the center of most of the Bruins' highlights.
On UCLA's first offensive play of the season, he scooted 64 yards for a touchdown.
In an upset of California, he produced 299 all-purpose yards and tied his own school record of five touchdowns in a game.
In the most recent Bruins triumph, a 51-28 rout of Oregon State on Saturday in the Rose Bowl, Drew rushed for 120 yards, had touchdown receptions of 43 and 20 yards, had a 59-yard punt return and finished with 250 all-purpose yards.
Overall, he has rushed for 605 yards, is averaging 185.6 all-purpose yards and has 16 touchdowns, averaging 28.1 yards on those scores.
He has scored on punt returns of 72, 66 and 81 yards and, counting a 65-yarder that was called back on a penalty, he has six returns of 59 yards or more.
"Oh my goodness, the dude is seriously outrageous," UCLA linebacker Spencer Havner says of watching his teammate tear up the turf.
Drew is easily the most exciting runner in, say, a 13-mile radius. Fourteen miles away, at No. 1 Southern California, is Reggie Bush.
Both teams are 7-0, perhaps headed for a monumental intracity showdown Dec. 3. Bush, a leading Heisman Trophy contender, leads the nation with 203.1 all-purpose yards a game. Drew's 185.6 average is fourth. Bush has 13 touchdowns. Drew has 16, tied for second in the country.
"Back when I was in high school, and in my first and second years at UCLA, I used to look at what he was doing," Drew says of Bush.
"But I don't really compare myself to him any more. What he's doing is not going to help my team out, and all I'm concerned about now is doing whatever I can to help out the Bruins. I'm just not concerned with individual things."
Drew has been a dream in Westwood, producing highlights on and off the field. Articulate, a good student, unusually team-oriented, he has become one of the most popular Bruins athletes in years.
Quarterback Drew Olson, a breakout star in his own right this season with 21 touchdown passes and only three interceptions, including 11 touchdown passes in just the last two games, deflects any Heisman questions to the other Drew.
"That's for Maurice, not for me," he says.
More than a runner
While Olson, like everyone, loves to watch Drew run, he also loves to watch the little guy block.
"On pass protection, he's awesome," Olson says. "You should see him drive his helmet into those big guys' thigh pads."
Drew says it's his way of getting back at all those linebackers and defensive linemen who are out to punish him.
"A lot of running backs don't pass block in the Pac-10," he says. "But I just see it as a personal challenge."
It's probably fitting for one of college football's littlest stars to be so grounded. And not surprising, given the guidance he received from both his grandfather and De La Salle coach Bob Ladouceur.
Of Ladouceur, Drew says, "We always wanted to make him proud. So we didn't drink, smoke, steal, cheat or lie. We didn't do any of that. We did everything we could to stay on his good side."
Ladouceur calls Drew "one of the best kids I've ever been around. I really love that guy."
Drew had a team-first attitude even in Pop Warner football.
"After a Pop Warner game, Maurice called all the guys on the offensive line to thank them for blocking for him," his mother says.
"The only reason I knew that is that one of the kids was the coach's son. The coach called me and told me. He said he's never seen that as long as he's been coaching.
"Maurice got that from my father. My father told him always give credit to your team. It's a team sport. You can't do it by yourself."
At UCLA, they might argue the point, having seen Drew pretty much single-handedly beat Cal, having seen him rush for a school-record 322 yards last year against Washington, scoring on runs of 47, 62, 58, 15 and 37 yards.
But nobody's perfect, his grandfather would tell him. Now his grandmother, who also attends all his games, fills the void.
"Yeah, she critiques every game," Drew says. "Just like my grandpa did."
shadyridr
Footballguy
Yeah and he had 9 the year before
Vintage_Football
Footballguy
Dunn had 1400-3 in 16 games
Taylor had 800-3 in 11 games
Taylor had 800-3 in 11 games
TheLastDispatch
Footballguy
thanks for the help guys. here's to you 
Gandalf
Footballguy
What you don't like highjacked threads???I think it's a cloudy situation at best. Until Fred Taylor gets hurt, I think it will be heavy doses of Freddy T on first and second down. MJD on third downs. Wimbush should get the bulk of the goal-line carries. Once FT gets hurt--it'll be utter chaos. I think MJD and Toefield will split carries until one of them emerges as the better back. However, Toefield has had trouble staying healthy in the past so he's an injury risk too. Probably couldn't play in 16 games. I still think Wimbush gets the goal-line work after Fred Taylor gets hurt.
Vintage_Football
Footballguy
Plus, to be honest with you,..the reason i went out to get Fred Taylor(which i gave Dominic Davis for Taylor, Bryant, and Drew for) is because he looked real healthy this preseason (entire healthy offseason and healthy pre-) and showed some flashes of what i "used" to and maybe again "will" like out of him. -- especially if the passing game struggles some.
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bjlmonster
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I believe Taylor will have a good year, but I also believe that Toefield is the #2 man. Del Rio and staff have had nothing but praise for Toe all mini camp and training camp, he is healthy, and when Jones went down, Toe single handedly took over against first teamers and ran the ball 5-6 straigh carries to the one yard line, then punched in the 2pt conversion. Drew will get a few 3rd down touches 3-5 a game, but it is Taylor #1, Toe #2, Drew #3, with Wimbush at FB.Goalline will be split between Taylor, Toe, and WimbushIMO of course, as this is a cloudy situation.
DWidmar
Footballguy
I looked at the updated Jags depth chart today and it shows Pearman as the #2, Drew Jones as #3 and Toefield as the #4. I thought Toefield had the #2 spot sewn up after a great pre-season. I guess we will have to wait and see.
http://www.jaguars.com/Team/DepthChart.asp
http://www.jaguars.com/Team/DepthChart.asp
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