AT COLORADO: This Season (Soph)-Enters the fall as one of four players in a most competitive deadlock at tailback.  More than one will play, but the camp battle will be who fights for the most playing time and what else their different skill sets can provide.  He enters the year already ranked 70th all-time in rushing yards at Colorado with 622.

2008 (Fr.)-Despite missing the better part of the final four games due to a broken leg (suffered on an illegal horse collar tackle at Texas A&M), he was selected as CU's Male Freshman Athlete of the Year for all sports.  He earned third-team Freshman All-America honors by Phil Steele's College Football, was a first-team Freshman All-Big 12 team member by rivals.com, and was second-team All-Colorado by the state's chapter of the National Football Foundation.  He was CU's Lee Willard Award winner as the team's most outstanding freshman, and was also selected by the coaches for a Gold Group Commitment Award (excellence with class).  He led the team in rushing with 622 yards on 132 attempts, posting a team-best 4.7 yards per carry, scoring two touchdowns and 35 first downs.   He also caught seven passes for 43 yards (no scores) to give him 665 all-purpose yards, the second most on the team.  He rushed for 100-plus yards on three occasions, versus West Virginia (28-166), Florida State (21-107) and Kansas State (29-141, 1 TD), tying the school record for the most 100-yard games by a freshman.  He was the state's (NFF) player of the week, the school's athlete of the week and CU's offensive back of the week for his efforts against West Virginia, with his 166 rushing yards the third most by a true freshman in school history.  He also caught three passes for 16 yards and earned nine first downs in the game.

HIGH SCHOOL-He earned first-team All-State, All-District and All-City honors as a senior, when he rushed for 2,036 yards and 33 touchdowns, averaging 10.8 yards per carry (with a long of 75, one of six runs over 50 yards).  He also caught 20 passes for 215 yards and three scores, and returned one punt-for 65 yards and a TD.  He did not play as a junior as he suffered a knee injury (ACL), but as a sophomore, he rushed for 1,200 yard and 15 touchdowns and had 700 yards and six scores as a freshman.  He rushed for just shy of 4,000 career yards with 54 touchdowns.  He played cornerback as an underclassmen, with four interceptions his soph season after picking off three as a frosh.  He had five games of 200-plus yards and 15 100-plus yard games in his prep career; three of his top games came during his senior year: in a 49-7 win over Centennial, he rushed for his career-best 243 yards and scored all seven of his team's touchdowns... in a 69-0 romp over Mifflin, he rushed for 212 yards and six touchdowns... and in a 55-7 win over Whetstone, he had 212 yards and five scores.  Under coach Tom Blake, Brookhaven was 9-2 his senior year, losing in the first round of the playoffs, after going 6-4 his junior year; BHS was also 9-2 his sophomore season (first round playoff setback) but was 15-0 his freshman year, winning the Division II state championship.  He also will letter four times in track (sprints, relays), as he was a member of the 2005 state championship team.  He owned a career prep best 10.7 in the 100-meter dash.

ACADEMICS-He is undecided on his major, but is interested in Business (Accounting).  He maintained a 3.0 grade point average in high school.

PERSONAL-Born January 3, 1990 in Columbus, Ohio.  Hobbies include most sports in general, dancing, listening to music and watching comedy movies.  Nickname is "Speedy."  His second cousin is CU teammate Douglas Rippy, who actually got him interested in the Buffaloes and vice-versa. Both were members of the same 2008 recruiting class.