A top 10 is a handshake and a closed door at the same time. The schools still standing get a warm hand. Everyone else gets a polite goodbye. Caiden Bellard, the 2028 running back from University Lab in Baton Rouge, trimmed his board to ten on Sunday. Houston survived the cut. So did LSU, Ole Miss, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Indiana, Miami and USC. It is a college football slate with a little of every kind of weather in it, and Bellard, ranked No. 50 among 2028 running backs by 247Sports, has earned every name on it. Start with last fall, when he was at Lafayette Christian. In 12…
Caiden Bellard Takes Us Inside His Top 10 and Why Houston Made the Cut

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