COLUMBIA, Mo. — A few weeks ago, shortly before the college football season began, Howard Richards prophesied what was coming for Missouri’s backfield.

We were talking about the players we were most excited to see suit up in black and gold this season, and I’d mentioned how much I was looking forward to seeing Louisiana-Monroe transfer Ahmad Hardy’s first carries.

Richards, the star lineman from MU who was a first-round pick by the Cowboys and is now the analyst for the Tigers’ radio broadcasts, agreed. Then, to those of us sitting at a gastropub table, he reminded us, warned us, prepared us: “Don’t forget about Jamal Roberts,” he said.

He was right. Through two games, the third-year MU running back who won two state titles with St. Mary’s has been impossible to ignore, turning quiet bu

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