Diesel did not just eat up Penn State's defense, he devoured it. That's something like a big fellow named Ron Dayne did in his days at Wisconsin. He reminds me some of a guy we used to have around here for a while. I think they are very similar. Of course, everyone wants to compare because of size.
Size is misleading.
They are both excellent runners who can break tackles and find holes. Oh yeah, Diesel spent much of last season trying to stop Big Ten bruising backs as powerful as he as a linebacker. And as a high school quarterback and linebacker, the guy was as big in Kalamazoo as Derek Jeter in his day. Before he showed up on the East Lansing campus, everyone knew Diesel's name. The Magazine profiled what the fab freshman brought to his dorm.