BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern coach Dawson Odums said he has finally found the missing ingredient to his offense in junior college transfer quarterback Ladarius Skelton.
Though the Jaguars have consistently ranked among the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s best offenses throughout Odums’ tenure, he said it has been unable to reach its true potential because the threat of a quarterback run has never truly been there unless Southern subbed in its backup.
Skelton is the latest — and most dynamic — addition to a quarterback position group that now includes three players in the classic dual-threat mold.
“Hopefully we can be as explosive or even more explosive than we’ve ever been,” Odums said. “With Dray Joseph and Austin Howard, we didn’t really have great runners back there. Now we’ve got great runners.
“If they can have the decision-making of Dray Joseph or Austin Howard, look out. The sky’s the limit for how good we can be offensively.”
Having an elusive running threat at the quarterback position, Odums said, will not allow opposing defenses to load up the line of scrimmage with defenders, and will give Southern an advantage in terms of numbers.
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