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Footballguy
What am I missing?This is Ingram's downward trend after his Heisman sophomore season:The reasons have been brought up multiple times in this thread, you just seem to be ignoring or dismissing them.
Kruetz no longer the starting center
Ingram gets more adjusted to the NFL game as he has more than 6 games of experience
Sporles role gets reduced a bit as the season progresses
You are arguing stats when I don't think stats are the correct thing to be looking at, so we will never see eye to eye on this. My eyes tell me Ingram has all the tools to be a top 10 RB in this league, and that it is only a matter of time before that happens.
If we dismissed all of the RB's who had pedestrian starts to their career in their first 6 games then we would be excluding a very large and talented pool of RB's.
1) Ingram had a much worse Junior season vs Senior season. .6 less YPC and almost 800 less rushing yards, including performing very average in big time games.
2) Ingram had a poor/average combine, which showed he isn't fast/strong/explosive.
3) Ingram has averaged 3.4 YPC on his first 71 carries behind a good run blocking OL. Pierre Thomas is averaging 4.0 on 41 carries and Darren Sproles is averaging 7.4 YPC on 27 carries.