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Bronx, N.Y. (August 13, 2014) – The Fordham football camp is into its second week and it's time to continue the position-by-position breakdown of the 2014 roster with a look at the running backs.
 
The biggest hole on the offensive side of the ball is at running back, a void left by the graduation of two-time All-Patriot League running back Carlton Koonce. Koonce is just one of two Rams to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season twice, including a school record 1,596 yards in 2012. He graduated as the second leading career rusher in school history with 3,382 yards (Kirwin Watson holds the record at 4,617 yards), despite playing at wide receiver as a freshman.
 

Head coach Joe Moorhead as a stable of backs to choose from when looking for a replacement, led by sophomore Kendall Pearcey, who is the leading returning rusher at running back, gaining 85 yards on 18 carries (4.7 yards/carry) in six games as a freshman in 2013 with two touchdowns. He gained 36 yards on four carries with one score against Rhode Island and rushed seven times for 22 yards and one touchdown versus Columbia. Pearcey was a two-time All-Area Offensive Player of the Year in high school and was named First Team All-Conference in 2012 as well as Top 100 in Central Florida. He gained over 3,000 career rushing yards in his career.
 
Also back to the position are senior Kevin Soares and junior Andrew Erenberg while senior Marc DeSisto moves over to running back after appearing at defensive back in 2013 and the unit will be joined by a pair of freshmen, Chase Edmonds and Jarred Brevard.
 
Soares saw action in just one game last year before being injured while Erenberg saw action in eight games, both at running back and on special teams. Soares was an All-Section and two-time All-League selection at Croton-Harmon High School and was named CHHS Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year. Erenberg is a graduate of Peters Township High School where he was a First Team All-State selection and First Team All-Conference pick.
 
DeSisto appeared in eleven games as a junior in 2013, recording 23 total tackles, 15 solo, including a career-high six tackles, five solo, in the win at Colgate. He appeared in both the defensive backfield and on special teams for the Rams last year. A graduate of Barrington High School in Barrington, R.I., DeSisto was a two-time All-State wide receiver, scoring 16 all-purpose touchdowns in 2009.
 
Edmonds has already displayed his talents in his first week of camp, scoring on a pair of long runs in the first scrimmage. He is a graduate of Central Dauphin East High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he was named MVP of the 2014 Big 33 Game where he rushed nine times for 73 yards and one touchdown and caught four passes for 31 yards. A consensus First Team All-State selection, he was also named Mid-Penn Player of the Year and First Team All-Mid Penn.
 
Brevard is also a Pennsylvania native, playing his high school football at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, where he earned First Team All-WPIAL AA Allegheny Conference performer honors (RB and Returner) as both a junior and senior and was a Second Team All-WPIAL AA Allegheny Conference selection (RB and Returner) as a sophomore.