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Felix Jones traded to Steelers (1 Viewer)

This trade will have no impact on anything. Eagles GM Howie Roseman loves to make minor trades like this. Felix Jones has, by all accounts, been awful in preseason. No way he was making the roster. Eagles are transitioning to a 3-4 so there's lots of need for LB depth. Both these guys will still struggle to make their new team's final roster.

 
In play by play(didn't watch) he seemed to do ok Saturday night late in the game.

Still rrrrreally hoping teams try and trade for Gerhart before he's a FA next year.

 
In play by play(didn't watch) he seemed to do ok Saturday night late in the game.

Still rrrrreally hoping teams try and trade for Gerhart before he's a FA next year.
Jones looked pretty good IMO. I am still not sure he sticks with the team but Barron Batch being cut yesterday is a positive sign.

 
Interesting.

Only 10 days ago, former first-round draft pick Felix Jones was losing his bid for the Eagles' running back job.Not the starting job — the No. 3 job. He trailed not only starter LeSean McCoy but also backups Chris Polk and Bryce Brown.

Now, in a curious twist that resulted from a rare Steelers trade, Jones temporarily may have secured a position in Pittsburgh with a team that is expected to be better than the Eagles.

Remarkably, it's the starting job.

Coach Mike Tomlin hasn't made it official. But it appears Jones — whose NFL future was in doubt earlier this month — might start the Steelers' opener Sept. 8 against Tennessee as rookie Le'Veon Bell remains out with a mid-foot sprain.

Jones, a disappointment during most of his five-season Cowboys career, appeared to vault ahead of Jonathan Dwyer, the idle Isaac Redman and LaRod Stephens-Howling by running for 56 yards on 14 carries during a 25-10 preseason loss at Carolina on Thursday night.

That effort, along with a 29-yard performance the week before against the Chiefs that occurred after he had only one ballroom walk-through in which to learn the plays, clearly impressed Tomlin.

“I thought Felix Jones helped himself,” Tomlin said. “I thought his pedigree showed. His natural run instincts showed. We'll just continue to look at it and go through the process in the proper manner.”

Asked if he thought he might start, Jones said, “We'll see how things go. ... You've got to let things play out.”

Jones has had only two full practices with the Steelers, but he is the most accomplished of their running backs and might have the best upside to start the season.
 
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A guy in my league drafted Felix on Friday. If was funny.
If Felix does start per the suggestion in the piece above maybe the guy in your league is laughing at all of you?
My question to either of you would be this. Have we not seen enough of this guy and bought into this fairy tale enough times to know that even if he is named the starter that he likely is still useless to most owners? Are we suggesting that Felix could touch the ball 15-20 times a game the first 3-4 weeks of the season, hold up in one piece, and be productive for all those touches? We just have not seen much to this point to suggest for any reason that he should be named the starter anywhere.

That said, it's the end of a 20 round draft and the guy is sitting there and your other option is Justin Forsett in Jax...at that point maybe he is worth a sniff but even so do understand the shelf life is short.

 
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A guy in my league drafted Felix on Friday. If was funny.
If Felix does start per the suggestion in the piece above maybe the guy in your league is laughing at all of you?
My question to either of you would be this. Have we not seen enough of this guy and bought into this fairy tale enough times to know that even if he is named the starter that he likely is still useless to most owners? Are we suggesting that Felix could touch the ball 15-20 times a game the first 3-4 weeks of the season, hold up in one piece, and be productive for all those touches? We just have not seen much to this point to suggest for any reason that he should be named the starter anywhere.

That said, it's the end of a 20 round draft and the guy is sitting there and your other option is Justin Forsett in Jax...at that point maybe he is worth a sniff but even so do understand the shelf life is short.
At this point, the only reason I would even consider picking up Felix is if you had drafted Leveon Bell and needed a pseudo-handcuff until Bell is fully back (say you snagged Bell for early-mid bye week filler/RB4). Other than that, it aint worth the breath to laugh on either side of the argument.

 
My question to either of you would be this. Have we not seen enough of this guy and bought into this fairy tale enough times to know that even if he is named the starter that he likely is still useless to most owners? Are we suggesting that Felix could touch the ball 15-20 times a game the first 3-4 weeks of the season, hold up in one piece, and be productive for all those touches? We just have not seen much to this point to suggest for any reason that he should be named the starter anywhere.
He did it last season when Demarco went down and played through injuries while doing it. He had a 7 game stretch filling in for Demarco where he put up RB2 numbers, a shade under 14 PPG in PPR leagues That's not worthless and I had a team that was in dire need of a RB2 and without that I don't make the playoffs.

 
Sure, why not? He's done it multiple times in his career already -- including last year when Murray was out.

6 DAL BAL 18 92 1 1 1 13 07 DAL CAR 15 44 0 6 5 30 08 DAL NYG 13 19 1 3 0 0 09 DAL ATL 9 39 0 5 5 70 010 DAL PHI 16 71 0 3 3 22 111 DAL CLE 14 43 1 3 2 12 0 85 308 3 16 147 1That's 101 touches in six games -- 17/game.His yards/carry sucked, but he was murder catching the ball and in PPR he'd have gotten you over 14ppg -- which is high end RB2 territory.

I'm not convinced that the Steelers o-line and offense in general isn't going to be a train wreck this year and I doubt he'd see that many touches per game, but for a guy that's on your WW you'd be crazy not to take a chance.

The biggest downside is that it'll be the first few games of the year, when it's less likely you'll need a replacement.

 
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I am not a fan of Felix. In fact, I liked Marion Barber III and was always anti-Felix.

I don't agree with any of these overly bad assessments of him. He's average or pretty good or whatever word you like and cmon if you won't admit that.

It's looking more and more like the steelers made a great move for a four(?) week fill-in.

Big Ben needs to put the team on his shoulders even though he lost Wallace. The blame will need to go to Big Ben, this is life in the NFL for a QB and that's that.

The Steelers have an unusual way of always having a great Center and always having a top RB or a RB that's a beast. I get it that this is very unusual for them and their fans, but most teams go through this. They'll have to make due if Felix only gets them 70-80 yards.

I don't think throwing two TEs out there or using some old fashioned college O with 3 in the backfield will do any good here. Take the 70-80 and plan around it. Ben has been pushed and pushed at times in his career and been so very impressive. Ya gotta do it again, lean on him.

 
A guy in my league drafted Felix on Friday. If was funny.
If Felix does start per the suggestion in the piece above maybe the guy in your league is laughing at all of you?
My question to either of you would be this. Have we not seen enough of this guy and bought into this fairy tale enough times to know that even if he is named the starter that he likely is still useless to most owners? Are we suggesting that Felix could touch the ball 15-20 times a game the first 3-4 weeks of the season, hold up in one piece, and be productive for all those touches? We just have not seen much to this point to suggest for any reason that he should be named the starter anywhere.

That said, it's the end of a 20 round draft and the guy is sitting there and your other option is Justin Forsett in Jax...at that point maybe he is worth a sniff but even so do understand the shelf life is short.
The news today is suggesting that could happen.

 
I picked him up off of waivers. A starting RB on a team like the steelers is worth a roster spot, it's as simple as that. Steelers don't have a ton of playmakers these days and Felix has talent. Sounds like Tomlin was impressed with him as well, which is huge. He could get 12-15 carries and 4-6 receptions week one.

 
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A guy in my league drafted Felix on Friday. If was funny.
If Felix does start per the suggestion in the piece above maybe the guy in your league is laughing at all of you?
My question to either of you would be this. Have we not seen enough of this guy and bought into this fairy tale enough times to know that even if he is named the starter that he likely is still useless to most owners? Are we suggesting that Felix could touch the ball 15-20 times a game the first 3-4 weeks of the season, hold up in one piece, and be productive for all those touches? We just have not seen much to this point to suggest for any reason that he should be named the starter anywhere.

That said, it's the end of a 20 round draft and the guy is sitting there and your other option is Justin Forsett in Jax...at that point maybe he is worth a sniff but even so do understand the shelf life is short.
At this point, the only reason I would even consider picking up Felix is if you had drafted Leveon Bell and needed a pseudo-handcuff until Bell is fully back (say you snagged Bell for early-mid bye week filler/RB4). Other than that, it aint worth the breath to laugh on either side of the argument.
It is the 20th round, unless the drafter is taking a guy that is retired there is no reason to laugh. They are all just low odd lotto tickets at that stage.

 

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