COLUMBUS, Ohio — The NFL Draft evaluations on Ohio State football running back J.K. Dobbins keep coming back to one word — vision. Dobbins proved himself as a bell cow back in 2019, but his production was not volume-dependent. He approached the line better than he ever had before, exhibiting the right mix of patience and intelligence and explosiveness. After sharing the job as a freshman and sophomore, Dobbins showed NFL teams he can carry a featured back’s workload. Will he get that chance in the NFL? Plenty of teams prefer to use a committee approach, so it’s possible even someone drafting Dobbins relatively high will use him in tandem with another back. More importantly, Dobbins eliminated a lot of doubts that lingered from his sophomore years. NFL teams in general don’t commit early round draft picks to running backs the way they once did. Dobbins, however, put himself in…
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