The Colorado Buffaloes, coached by Deion Sanders, have retooled their roster for the 2026 college football campaign, especially when it comes to their running back room. Throughout the current offseason, coach Sanders’ recruitment staff was able to recruit an exciting line of running backs. These include transferees such as Sacramento State’s Damian Henderson II and Alabama’s Richard Young, along with Colorado mainstay Micah Welch.
With this influx of talent for next season, there have been several discussions on how Sanders, with offensive coordinator Brennan Marion, will be exhausting all of their skillsets. In a guest interview on the Zero 2 Sixty podcast, former Buffaloes running back and NFL player Phillip Lindsay gave his advice to the Colorado program’s staff while mentioning how it was during his time with them.
“ I mean, you know how it is in today’s football, right? Running back by committee. When I was in Colorado, it was running back by committee. Ride The hot hand. Obviously you want a running back to, to step up and say, ‘Hey, I wanna be the lead back.’ And I think for me, that’s what I end up doing, alright? My first two years I was sharing carries,” Lindsay shared. (0:17)
“Then at some point I was like, ‘Okay, enough with this. I want more carries. I’m gonna show you that I’m consistent, I’m reliable, I’m dependable,’ and go from there. So one of these running backs needs to step up to where you can count on them every Saturday or Friday, right? Every Friday or Saturday,” he continued.
Lindsay played college football for the Buffaloes before blossoming into a respectable running back in the NFL. His NFL career started by going undrafted in the 2018 draft, but still worked out a five-yearn tenure from 2018 to 2023. For Lindsay and the rest of the CFB world, it remains to be seen how Sanders plans on fixing his RB rotation.
Phillip Lindsay explains how he would deploy the 2026 Colorado Buffaloes running back rotation
Phillip Lindsay last played college football back in the 2010s from 2014 to 2017. Naturally, schemes in the sport have shifted and revolutionized since then to fit the pace of play today. While Lindsay acknowledges this, he also explained how he would deploy the upcoming rotation of Colorado Buffaloes running backs. For Lindsay, he’d depend on just three running backs with intentional roles.
“I’m excited to see what the offensive coordinator, coach Marion, can do. I’m, I’m excited to see what these running backs look like, right? There’s enough to go around. And you need three or four running backs. Specifically, I would just go with three. Three running backs that you can rely on, different types. Third down back, you know, the first and second down back, and then of course like a goal line back if you wanna have one of those as well,” Lindsay said. (0:50)
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