Mike Tanier’s Combine Notebook, Day 3: Ezekiel Elliott Makes His First-Round Bid

February 26, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

INDIANAPOLIS — Here's a ridiculous thought: Ezekiel Elliott, top running back in the 2016 draft class and one of the standouts of Friday's NFL Scouting Combine workouts, plugging along as a lowly fullback.
Crazy, right? Well, it happened.
"When I first started playing football, I was a fullback," Elliott said. "My first job was to block."    
Elliott became a fullback when he was seven years old.
"When you are seven years old, you run a wishbone. So a fullback is a fullback, but he's not really a true fullback." Translation: The young Elliott took handoffs and hammered the line over and over again against unlucky fellow second-graders.
When he entered Ohio State, Elliott was back at the least glamorous position in the backfield.
"I realized I wasn't going to be the biggest or fastest guy," Elliott said. "I was only 17 playing with a bunch of 22- and 21-year-old guys, so I was trying to find something that would set me apart."
It's a go...

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