Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur has received plenty of criticism so far this season regarding Colorado football’s continued neglect of the run game. Through two games, primary running backs Dallan Hayden, Charlie Offerdahl and Isaiah Augustave have combined for only 77 yards on 25 carries.
Although Colorado will be without Hayden, who owns a team-high 52 rushing yards, this weekend against Colorado State, Shurmur is facing pressure to get the Buffs’ rushing attack in rhythm.
On Thursday, Shurmur appeared on the Colorado Football Coaches Show and was asked by Mark Johnson about his plan to address the struggling rushing attack. Here’s how Shurmur responded:
“When we call runs against fair fight looks — five-on-five or six-on-six — we certainly got to do a better job there,” Shurmur said. “There are times when you just got to run it up in there. There’ll be an extra guy or two and you got to get four or five yards a crack. I think we can do that. We’re gonna put a couple of new runners in there… We’ve been kind of moving around the offensive line and trying to find the right pieces up front so that then we can build that consistency as we’re running the pass that we choose to run and the schemes that we choose to run. There’s some consistency that needs to get built there. You’d like to have it all tuned up by game one, but we feel better about what we’re going to put out there this week.”
Colorado will kick off against Colorado State on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. MT (CBS).
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