Who will run the ball for the Green Bay Packers?
I don’t have the perfect answer for this question in terms of Week 1, but I think I know who’ll wind up having the most carries for Green Bay in 2007: Brandon Jackson. The rookie out of the University of Nebraska wasn’t really a force in college until the second half of his junior year (after which he left school for the draft), when he took over for erstwhile team star Marlon Lucky and racked up 835 yards in nine games with a 5.2 yards-per-carry average and eight touchdowns. Jackson injured his hand in the Big 12 championship game against Oklahoma and wound up getting only seven carries in Nebraska’s Cotton Bowl loss to Auburn, indeed proving how important he’d become to the Cornhusker attack. The fact that Jackson played in Beau Bridges’, er, I mean, in Bill Callahan’s pro-style system in Lincoln will help him in Green Bay. The Packers will employ a zone-blocking scheme with which Jackson is familiar, and that should let him get the kind of cutback runs that served him well last year
