It's kinda funny seeing all the injury jokes. Just reminds me we know very little, in general. here we are bashing the former consensus top 5 pick, forecasting an injury, while we are now eating crow one way on Peterson (everyone was downgrading him), eating it another way on Chris Johnson, and its completely irrelevant on the one guy that INJURY was what all the talk was about (remember how everything surrounding DMAC was ALL about the injury, yet he's sucking with no injury at all and we are ignoring him and predicting doom for another guy.)
Say you had to bet $500.00 of your own money on one of only two options. 1. Matthews stays healthy and uninjured the rest of the season. 2. Matthews gets injured again before the season is over. Just 14 games left. What one would you choose?
If by "get injured" you mean "miss a game due to injury," that's a really close call.
Slightly more than half of all starting RBs who play in 16 games in Year N miss at least one game due to injury the following year. If there were 16 games left in the season, I'd bet on option #2 ("gets injured") for
any starting RB.
But there are only 14 games left now, and it's easier to go 14 games without missing one than it is to go 16 games. The average healthy running back is probably about even money to go 14 games without missing time due to injury.
I don't believe that Ryan Mathews is more injury-prone than average based on his physical build or running style. He may be less likely than average to play through certain injuries, but I think he's matured in that respect. So my opinion is that Mathews is no more likely than average to miss time, which means he's probably about even money to make it through the next 14 games without missing a game due to injury. Flip a coin.