A: Cedric Benson? Wrong. Ryan Moates? Wrong. Adrian Peterson? Wrong.

In fact, none of those big names are putting up anywhere near the numbers that Chadron State freshman tailback Danny Woodhead has so far this year. In eight games Woodhead has rushed for 1,501 yards and 21 touchdowns. After picking up a modest 129 yards in his team's first two games, Woodhead exploded against Bemidji State, rolling up 306 yards and five touchdowns. Opponents have been hard-pressed to slow him down since, as he has recorded five 200-yard performances in his last six games.

His success should hardly be a surprise to anyone that follows football in Nebraska. In 2003, Woodhead was the Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year, the offensive captain of the Omaha World-Herald's and Lincoln Journal-Star's all-class, all-state teams and was named the Huskerland Prep Report's Player of the Year. In his senior season at North Platte High School Woodhead rushed for 2,037 yards and 31 touchdowns and was also the schools leading scorer on the basketball court. Oh and he graduated with a 3.9 GPA.

Big 12 powers like Nebraska and Kansas State took a look but decided that Danny was too small, (he's 5'8", 185 lbs.-an inch taller and five pounds heavier then pre-season Heisman candidate Darren Sproles) so Danny followed the rest of his family to Division II Chadron State. Both his father and his uncle played football for the Eagles and his brother Ben is a junior wide receiver on the team.

If things continue to roll for Woodhead and the Eagles he could eclipse 2,000 yards for the season and in doing so will threaten the record for most rushing yards by a freshman currently held by Johnny Bailey of Texas A&M-Kingsville, who ran for 2,011 yards as a freshman in 1986.