Tillery makes season debut

Southern Jaguars (0-2, 0-0) running back Lenard Tillery is excited.
The sophomore running back will play his first collegiate game this weekend against Prairie View (1-1,1-0).
He’s already imagined how his first college game would play out plenty of times.
After sitting out the first two games of the season with a leg injury, Tillery returned to practice Sunday and participated in full pads with his team.
“As soon as I got out there, I just kept on reminding myself you back, you back,” Tillery said at practice. “So I was trying to push it to a full speed and push my teammates so they could go full speed so we could have a great practice.”
Tillery, 5’10 181 pounds, walked-on at Southern and was redshirted for the 2012 season due to his injury.
According coach Dawson Odums, Tillery is working hard to prove himself.
In SU’s spring game, he had 18 carries for 111 yards., leaving no His coaches and teammates are anxious to see what he will bring to the home field this weekend.
Tillery is also anxious to see how well he will do Saturday. “Nobody has seen me in a real game yet so everybody is anxious to see what all the hype is,” Tillery said. “I’m anxious to see myself.”
Odums said Tillery is a ball of energy and his teammates feed off of him.
 “When you see him on the field, you see our offense move at a different pace,” Odums said. “Even though he was redshirted last year, what you see in Tillery is a guys that’s determined.”
So far the Jaguars have rushed the ball 63 times for 171 yards and zero touchdowns. Senior Darius Coleman leads the Jaguars in rushing and ranks fourth in the league with 70.5 yards per game.
Coleman has averaged 3.6 yards per attempt, and finished with 44 yard on 19 carries last weekend in the Jaguars upsetting 55-14 loss against Northwestern State (2-0).
Tillery has already given his teammates solid proof that he can resolve the Jaguars well-publicized backfield issues and he’s coming into this season with a substantial chip on his shoulder.
Improving the running game has been at the top of the SU’s to-do list coming into the season, and Odums believes Tillery is a positive step for the ground game.
Saturday’s game will be the first home game in A.W. Mumford stadium kickin