{"id":2216,"date":"2023-03-30T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:58:33","slug":"jd-duplain-raving-about-nathan-carter-giving-kenneth-walker-flashbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"JD Duplain raving about Nathan Carter giving Kenneth Walker flashbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>JD Duplain spoke about new Michigan State running back Nathan Carter this week and the reviews give Kenneth Walker pre-2021 vibes.<\/h2>\n<p>Folks, it&#8217;s officially hype season. This is the time of the offseason in which we, as Michigan State football fans, buy into the hype surrounding certain players or the team in general.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Nathan Carter is the subject of most of the hype.<\/p>\n<p>The UConn running back transfer has been getting some glowing praise from teammates and coaches and it just has a familiar feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>Flash it back to the spring of 2021. A little-known running back named Kenneth Walker III just transferred in to the program from Wake Forest and was garnering a ton of praise from teammates and coaches. They were all saying how he was twitchy, tough to tackle, and how he made the offense look better.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those good times?<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s get back to the present. Carter is drawing some similar praise from teammates such as JD Duplain who said that he makes the offensive line look good.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Redshirt senior o-lineman JD Duplain on transfer RB Nathan Carter&#8230; ??<\/p>\n<p>&#39;Really good player and makes us look good&#39;<\/p>\n<p>More (On3+): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ii9hQLHOgG\">https:\/\/t.co\/ii9hQLHOgG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wUtFhwtp0i\">pic.twitter.com\/wUtFhwtp0i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SpartanMag.com (@TheSpartanMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSpartanMag\/status\/1641159317519839238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get one thing straight: I am\u00a0<em>not<\/em> comparing Carter to Walker. That would be incredibly unfair because there won&#8217;t be another Walker. I am, however, saying that the feel to this running back addition is exciting. It feels like the backfield will be a threat again.<\/p>\n<p>I liked what I saw in the latter stages of the 2022 season from Jalen Berger and I think he&#8217;s going to be a really good complementary piece, but Carter is starting to sound like the RB1.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Is Nathan Carter going to come right in and rush for 1,500 yards and win the Doak Walker Award? As much as I&#8217;d love that, the answer is no. But is he going to come in and immediately improve the backfield and rush for somewhere around 1,000 yards? It feels like that&#8217;s the case.<\/p>\n<p>All I&#8217;m saying is that the praise for the running back position wasn&#8217;t really there last offseason with the two new guys and it was there for Walker and is again for Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Carter is going to be a breakout star in this offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like we&#8217;ve been here before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189,249],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-nathan-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}