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Minium: Blake Watson Broke the 1,000-yard Mark the Hard Way for ODU Football Team

By Harry Minium

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – When he sits down for an interview, you realize that Blake Watson isn't that big a guy, certainly not as big as he plays in an Old Dominion football jersey.

At 5-foot-9, 193 pounds, he hardly looks like the running back who, when corralled by a 300-pound defensive lineman, breaks a tackle, then stiff-arms a linebacker and squirms and squeezes out every last possible inch.

Watson became only the second player in ODU history to run for more than 1,000 yards in a season this year, and he did it the hard way. Although he's got deft open-field moves, he gained many of his 1,035 yards in battering-ram like fashion.