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Texas Tech: Red Raiders offer highly-productive DFW running back

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 16: Texas Tech Red Rainders mascot the Masked Rider leads the team onto the field before the college football game against the TCU Horned Frogs on November 16, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 16: Texas Tech Red Rainders mascot the Masked Rider leads the team onto the field before the college football game against the TCU Horned Frogs on November 16, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /
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The Texas Tech football program has extended a scholarship offer to Cam Davis, an extremely productive running back from South Oak Cliff High School.

Since Deandre Washington graduated after the 2015 season, the Texas Tech football program has been trying to find its next star running back.  In fact, that’s been a position where the Red Raider offense has been lacking in recent years as no running back since Washington has even come close to sniffing the 1,000-yard mark.

Now, one of the most productive running backs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has picked up an offer from Matt Wells and his staff.  Perhaps he could be a possible big-time back in Lubbock.

5-foot-8, 170-pound Camren Davis from South Oak Cliff High School has reported an offer from the Red Raiders.  He shared the news on Twitter Wednesday morning.

https://twitter.com/1CamDavis/status/1220022942001717253?s=20

According to MaxPreps.com, the 2021 prospect rushed for 1,291 yards and 14 touchdowns this year.  He averaged a whopping 11.1 yards per carry on his way to 117 yards per game.

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Against Seagoville High School this fall, he ran for 305 yards and three scores to help his profile soar.  In that game, Davis picked up a ball in the back of the endzone that had been fumbled on the QB-center exchange and he took it 108 yards to the house.  That’s the type of explosiveness that Texas Tech has been missing at the RB spot for several years.

Davis is not currently ranked by 247Sports but that’s likely to change once the 2020 class is officially put to bed and focus of recruiting services turn to 2021.  Right now, he holds offers from the likes of Tech, Georgia Tech, Illinois State, and Utah State.

247Sports has Davis rushing for 2,207 yards and 26 scores combined in the last two seasons meaning that as a sophomore and junior, he averaged over 1,000 yards per year.   Perhaps he could become the type of running back that Tech has been lacking.

Since Washington, the Red Raiders have not had a running back that was both durable enough to be a 3-down back while also being explosive enough to be a homerun threat.  Players such as Justin Stockton or Ta’Zhawn Henry have had the big-play ability but have not been prototypical work-horse backs while players like SaRodorick Thomspson and Da’Leon Ward have been steady but have lacked breakaway speed.

What’s more, Tech didn’t even sign a running back in the 2019 class.  That’s why Matt Wells had to bring grad transfer, Armand Shyne, into the program from Utah.  Unfortunately, Shyne saw his season cut short after suffering broken ribs in late October against Kansas.  That left Tech with only two healthy scholarship backs for the remainder of the season.

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In the 2020 class, Tech has already inked 3-star RB Tahj Brooks but the 212-pounder from Manon, Texas is more of a bowling ball than a big-play threat.  Thus, there is a need for Tech to continue to try to bring explosiveness into the program at the RB position and Cam Davis could be the player to do that.

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