Papa John's
Footballguy
There is an awful lot of presumptions in that ... I guess we'll just have to see. If their line improves I could easily see him being the starting back and splitting both of those duties with another back. That would make him the main back in Detroit.He isn't going to be the short yard back, and he isn't going to be the 3rd down back. Can you name anyone like that in the last 20 years who has been a rb1? He's also slow and not a homerun threat so how is this guy going to score points? To top it off he's on a horrible team that lost Calvin Johnson and really doesn't have a lot of talent around him. I don't get how anyone can like this guy right now.
Again, as I have now stated three times though ... this all depends on Detroit improving their line. A statement everyone seems to ignore in these posts.
Again, his game is at the second level. If he has (3) 15-20 yd gains a game (of his 10-12 rushes), which he can easily do with his agility against LB's and S's; then he's going to be a low end RB1 once he gets his 3-6 receptions and occasional TD. A RB1 in today's NFL easily has a stat line of 75 rush yds, 40 rec yds, and 1 TD. That will fluctuate (for better and worse), but is easily doable behind a good line.
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