Anyone who watched Oregon football last year knows that even on one of college football’s fastest teams, De’Anthony Thomas stood out as quite possibly the Ducks fastest individual player. The 5’9 true freshman was electrifying at times, and a straight blur at others, with no game more indicative of that than this January’s Rose Bowl. Thomas- again, only a freshman- finished the afternoon with just two carries, but tallied 155 yards rushing in a wild win over Wisconsin. Yes, you read that correctly. De’Anthony Thomas averaged 77.5 yards per carry in the Granddaddy of them all. And the SEC thought they had speed, huh?
Of course it’s one thing to be fast on the football field, and quite another to be fast period, the latter of which Thomas tried to prove this weekend. Thomas made his debut for the Ducks track team Saturday, at the Oregon Twilight Meet, against several other Pac-12 and local schools.
And with it, there were two ways to make his debut: Given the insane standard T...
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