Arizona State Sun Devils Insider Podcast: Running Back Room Preview

In today's edition of the Sun Devils Insider Podcast, we take a look at the current running back room and how Cam Skattebo could be replaced.

Arizona State running back Kanye Udoh (6) during spring football practice at Kajikawa practice fields in Tempe on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. | Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

In today's episode of the Arizona State Sun Devils Insider Podcast, we take a look at the state of the Sun Devil RB room.

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Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham spoke about spring practices earlier this offseason. Below is a partial transcript.

Q: on practice?

Dillingham: "Yeah. I mean, on Saturday was a really good work day. I mean, we hit one of our highest workloads. I think it was actually our highest workload ever in full pads. Usually you have higher workloads without full pads on. So our guys brought good energy. I thought today it was just, you know, defense early in practice, somewhat fake energy, right? Losing some reps. Offense at the end, that was the worst last two periods of offensive football I've seen in a long time. We couldn't snap the football with our twos, threes. We got to have another guy who can snap the football, and we have to be able to not jump all sides. I mean, we haven't had that problem here, knock on wood, since I've been here, even when we sucked, we didn't have that problem. And we got to be able to clean that up, because that was the sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, that's going to lose us a lot of football games."

Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham spoke about spring practices earlier this offseason. Below is a partial transcript.

Q: on practice?

Dillingham: "Yeah. I mean, on Saturday was a really good work day. I mean, we hit one of our highest workloads. I think it was actually our highest workload ever in full pads. Usually you have higher workloads without full pads on. So our guys brought good energy. I thought today it was just, you know, defense early in practice, somewhat fake energy, right? Losing some reps. Offense at the end, that was the worst last two periods of offensive football I've seen in a long time. We couldn't snap the football with our twos, threes. We got to have another guy who can snap the football, and we have to be able to not jump all sides. I mean, we haven't had that problem here, knock on wood, since I've been here, even when we sucked, we didn't have that problem. And we got to be able to clean that up, because that was the sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, that's going to lose us a lot of football games."

Q: on running back room?

Dillingham: I mean, in an ideal world, whatever gives us the best chance to win, sometimes that's ideal featured. Sometimes that's multiple people. I think there's pros and cons of both. So I don't really have an ideal situation there. Obviously, if you can get multiple guys involved and keep guys fresh, that's a strength. But what if the one guy is so good that he doesn't get tired? Well, then you're not trying to keep him fresh. You want to keep getting the ball. So I think it's just, I don't know if I have an ideal situation. I think right now we have a bunch of guys battling, you know, to play, and I think there's a bunch of guys who deserve to play in that room right now.

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