TEMPE � Arizona State’s football program faces a new era as star running back Cameron Skattebo departs for the NFL, leaving a void in the backfield. It’s a tall task to replace a player who garnered 170 total Heisman votes last season, good for a fifth-place finish, along with accumulating 2,316 all-purpose yards and 1,711 rushing yards during the Sun Devils� magical run through the Big 12.
It’s unlikely the Sun Devils will find one individual to replace Skattebo, but to quote Moneyball, they can “recreate him in the aggregate.�
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