I wish we still had Red. Then we'd have five scholarship RBs.
If we were moving a WR, my first thought would be Bolden. He had 21 career carries at Oregon State. But I don't think we're moving a WR for reasons that have already been discussed here.
Also, just for reference, here are the RB carries and distribution in Sark's time here.
2023: 444 RB carries (31.7 per game)
Brooks 187, Baxter 138, Blue 65, Red 30, Robinson 12, Wisner 12
2022: 421 RB carries (32.4 per game)
Robinson 258, Johnson 93, Brooks 30, Robinson 25, Blue 15
2021: 367 RB carries (31.6 per game)
Robinson 195, Johnson 96, Robinson 45, Brooks 21, Watson 10
Average: 410.7 carries (31.6 per game)
RB1 19.4 carries per game, RB2 8.8 per game, RB3 4.4 carries per game
These are injury adjusted numbers (2021 Bijan had his carries across 10 games). Player carries per game do not add up to team carries per game for that reason.
My takeaways: rushing attempts per game has been consistent over Sark's tenure. In a perfect world, we're looking at something like Blue 18 carries per game, Wisner 10, Gibson 4. We don't live in a perfect world though and the situation is more grim than I thought prior to doing this math. We can still overcome it with some injury luck, but we'll likely be counting on Gullette/Page/whoever to give us a minimum of 40 carries this year. Probably more like 60 and it could go over 100 if our top three guys miss more than a couple games. Especially if we have a 16 game season.
Two subpackage/scheme things to watch: 1) Wildcat. Roschon and Red probably ran that 25+ times per year. I imagine that's probably dead now given that it's success was declining and we now don't have the body type for it. 2) Sark's use of motion. People like to call it the Keilan role, but it's flexible. It's just whichever athlete Sark has on the field that he can move around to get certain reads or calls from the defense. Keilan was the primary guy for it in 21/22 and Sark ran him with it more. Last year the improved WR core ate up his play time and the carries given to whoever was motioning declined, which was more in-line with what he did at Bama. I'd expect that to continue this year.