Cincinnati's Isaiah Pead is best running back you've never heard of

Cincinnati's Isaiah Pead has proved he has what it takes to be a featured, rushing for 402 yards and averaging 9.8 yards per carry this season.
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He never got over being the last kid picked in little league. If you want to attribute ISAIAH PEAD's success on something, that'll do.
Who's Isaiah Pead?
Exactly.
The best college running back you've never heard of dropped 169 yards on Oklahoma three weeks ago, on 21 carries. That's eight yards a carry, or almost six yards a carry better than what the Sooners' DEMARCO MURRAY managed in the same game. Oklahoma beat Cincinnati that night, but only 31-29. And Pead fairly routed Murray.
"DeMarco Murray,'' Pead says.One-sixty-nine,'' says Pead.
No respect.
"He has to be better just to get noticed,'' says Pead's mother, LESHAWNA.
There's a lesson here, somewhere. Something about persistence and humility. Something rare in the entitled air of the big time. Something enduring, far beyond Saturday afternoon. Leshawna Pead persisted, even after she lost her job and her home and had to move back in with her parents for a time in 2007, a single mom with Isaiah and his little sister in tow.
She passed the gift of striving to her son. Great athletes aren't universally familiar with the word no. Isaiah Pead and no have been on a first-name basis for a very long time.His dream was to play for Ohio State,'' says Leshawna.I took it personally. I'm in theiryard, and I got looked over,'' Pead recalls.(Ohio), on just 10 first-half carries. The RedHawks aren't exactly the '85 Bears. But 195, in two quarters?
"Electric,'' is Pead's description. He might be a striver. He doesn't lack for confidence.(5-foot-11, 185 pounds) or blindingly fast even though he was a state high school champion in the 400 meters. He is strong with great balance and is quick to the hole.(yards) than what the run is blocked for.''
Pead still stumbles, occasionally. He's a deep sleeper, to the extent that his alarm clock doesn't always do its job.Right now, you're still nothing,'' she told Isaiah.