With just 56 yards rushing through his team’s first five games, Cooper quarterback Chris Warren hasn’t been the running threat he was a year ago, when he amassed 541 yards and five touchdowns on the ground in 10 games of action.

But the senior signal caller feels that he’s a much more complete player this year than he was last season as a junior, and in a strange way, that stat is proof.

As a first-year starter in 2021, Warren felt he leaned too heavily on his legs, using his scrambling ability as a crutch at times when bigger plays were available downfield. So his reduced reliance on his feet for production is actually an indicator of the progress he’s made as a quarterback — a theory to which his coaches would also subscribe.