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Senior running back J.R. Redmond is among the elite rushers in the nation and is an all-purpose threat every time he touches the ball. The 6-0, 220-pound native of Carson, Calif., has etched his name in the Arizona State record book along side the likes of Woody Green, Freddie Williams and Wilford "Whizzer" White. Redmond ranks fourth in the Pac-10 and 19th in the nation with a 108.1-yard rushing average in 1999. He has career-highs in rushing yards (973) and carries (201) and has matched a career-high in touchdowns (11). He is averaging 4.8 yards per rush. He needs 27 yards to reach the 1,000-yard plateau and become the 13th Sun Devil in history to reach that mark in a season, the first since Michael Martin in 1997. He has 399 yards and six touchdowns on 70 carries in his last three games. Redmond ranks fourth in ASU history with 3,098 career rushing yards and is only the fourth Sun Devil to rush for more than 3,000 yards. He needs 76 yards to surpass Wilford "Whizzer" White (1947-50) for third place. Redmond's career rushing total ranks 19th in Pac-10 history and Redmond is the 23rd player in conference history to reach 3,000 career yards. He is tied for sixth with Darryl Harris on ASU's all-time list with 11 100-yard games. His next 100-yard rushing performance will tie him with Leon Burton for fifth. ASU is 9-2 when Redmond passes the century mark and 4-0 in 1999. How versatile is Redmond? He has been named to the first-team All-Pac-10 team as a running back (1998), return specialist (1998) and all-purpose player (1997). He was just the third player in Pac-10 history to earn first-team honors as a return specialist and at a "regular" position in the same year (Chris Oldham, Oregon, DB, 1989; Curtis Conway, USC, WR, 1992). Redmond ranks fifth in the Pac-10 and 28th in the nation with 138.1 all-purpose yards per game (1,243) in 1999. His 235 all-purpose yards against Washington State was a season-high and the eighth time in his career he eclipsed 200 all-purpose yards. Redmond was the 1998 Pac-10 all-purpose leader with 1,558 all-purpose yards, becoming just the second Sun Devil to claim that individual crown (Darryl Clack, 1983). He also ranked 13th in the nation in 1998. His 5,391 career all-purpose yards is 263 yards shy of White's ASU career record of 5,654 yds.
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