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What has he shown other than being a pre-season dynamo?
Lots of guys look good in limited duty.It's "Can he do this 20 times a game for 16 weeks?" that NFL coaches ask.
or re-sign JLew (low-end cheap money starters), and my boy Musa will still have a shot at the starting job by midseason by staying healthy and outperforming the incumbent.
I wouldn't minimize the "when healthy" - that goes a long way towards gaining confidence by the coaching staff. And that's something that Musa hasn't done.Not only that, but while Lewis wasn't horrible last year, he wasn't exactly lighting it up. If the staff liked Musa that much, they would have given him at least some meaningful carries like Chester Taylor did the year before.
Bumped. Just wondering how things are looking for Musa early on.
He will serve as McGahee's backup all season...maybe he gets 60-80 carries tops in relief. Have no delusions about McGahee, how soft the 1st 7 games are for Baltimore out of the box, and also how much McGahee will rack up while the Ravens work the clock in the 2nd half of a lot of their football games. After you draft McGahee at the end of round 1 you should be able to lock up Musa Smith in the 12th round or later no problem...shouldn't have much value to non McGahee owners.
My uneducated guess is that Mike anderson will probably be the primary backup, while Musa may see some 3rd down fill in due to a bit more versatility than MA. If McGahee went down, I'd guess the two would split the carries. His biggest value (to the Ravens) is probably his special teams ability, where he's always been a force.
Yes Anderson is still there and if McGahee went down I'd imagine that he'd probably get the majority of the carries (60/40).
