Syracuse Football Player Rankings (Week 7)

Technically Dontae Strickland had the highlights of the night throwing an 84 yard touchdown to Brisly Estime as well as a rushing touchdown while breaking several tackles to clinch the game late in the fourth quarter.

The reasons we can’t put him in the top three is twofold.

1.) The 84 yard pass to Estime was a trick play which most times sets up the waiting receiver for success.

2.) He’s a running back, and he’s still needs to run the ball better. He had 16 carries for 69 yards. One of which was that 16 yard touchdown. That play was great and all, but 15 carries for 54 yards means he averaged just over three yards on all the other carries. Definitely not spectacular.

Yeah he had two highlight touchdowns, but as a running back he’s still disappointing. He has the talent, we can see that, but he’s got to make it a weekly thing. Let’s see how he does this weekend. For now he sits just outside our top three despite a great performance.