Texas Football: 3 most efficient skill position players for 2020

2) Most efficient skill position players for Longhorns: Keaontay Ingram, Running Back

The other running back that made the list for the Longhorns here as one of their most efficient skill position players returning for the 2020 season is 6-foot and 225 pound Carthage, TX, native Keaontay Ingram. The former four-star recruit and rising junior was a steady hand out of the backfield for the Longhorns over the course of the last two seasons.

Ingram was the best thing to happen to the Longhorns at running back since D’Onta Foreman left the Forty Acres following the 2016 season. In his two years playing for the Longhorns thus far, he’s registered 1,561 rushing yards on 286 rushing attempts, 10 rushing touchdowns, 56 receptions, 412 receiving yards, and five touchdown catches.

In terms of yards per carry and per catch, Ingram only got better last season. He registered two more yards per catch compared to his freshman campaign, and almost one more yard per carry. He’s also only fumbled the ball once, and dropped two passes in his college career to date.

And despite a few nagging lower-body injuries that he’s dealt with since high school, Ingram has carried on playing in all 26 games since the beginning of the 2018 college football season. It will either be Ingram or Johnson getting the bulk of the workload early on in the season opener against UTEP, and deservedly so.