O/U on how many guys Russell Gage hurdles this year.

The better question is: what is the O/U of the times he will do it before someone puts a helmet in his nuts or flips him in the air? Hurdling a player with no one around is one thing, hurdling in traffic is another.

This is a fun play for the fans, but it ultimately has major injury risk. These high risk/high reward type move perpetuates more risk driven behavior. I have no issue with the hurdle move when there is only one defensive player in the area but Gage does this within ten yard of the line of scrimmage sometimes (give or take a hurdle). Considering he is a pivotal part of our offensive scheme, I would rather the hurdling discontinue.

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I agree, but sometimes you try and make a play. He's being doing this since high school and his instincts are pretty good

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Hindsight Bias.

I do agree that he has good instinctual movements when he hurdles but like I said in my previous post, high risk/high reward behavior elicits more risk taking behavior. High school is one thing, SEC play is another. You can see that high school move carried over into his collegiate play. There is no reason to believe he won't continue to push for the hurdle seeing his behavior is internally reinforcing and externally reinforcing by the notoriety he receives from doing so. I'm sure the coaches would agree that a player leaving his feet is never a good thing unless they are diving into the end-zone.