Running Backs by the Numbers

[Dexterity]

Stewart has played great this season. He needs 90% of the carries.

[JawnyBlaze]

Yea, I think Tolbert stays.  It's not a guarantee, but he's definitely useful when healthy (and he hasn't had issues before this year).  And he's not expensive, like $2mil a year right?  I think Stewart/Tolbert/either Fozzy or a mid round draft pick will be more than sufficient.  If our RB corps gets decimated again like this year, we can always pick someone off the street like we did with Fozzy and Ogbannaya to fill in.  A solid OL will make it easier for that to work.

[CRA]

top three NFL rushing leaders and where they were selected in the NFL draft

1.DeMarco Murray round three pick 71

2.Le'Veon Bell round two pick 48

3.Marshawn Lynch round 1 pick 12

and Tevin Coleman has the potential to join this group in the near future.but a fourth or fifth is a bit of a reach,imho.

Those are also simply the rare featured RBs....so they have the best stats.

You give an undrafted kid like CJ Anderson featured RB snaps for 16 games and he would have top 5 stats too

heck he probably isn't the only RB in Denver that could have those numbers with heavy reps

[Ace_Aladdin]

Yea, I think Tolbert stays.  It's not a guarantee, but he's definitely useful when healthy (and he hasn't had issues before this year).  And he's not expensive, like $2mil a year right?  I think Stewart/Tolbert/either Fozzy or a mid round draft pick will be more than sufficient.  If our RB corps gets decimated again like this year, we can always pick someone off the street like we did with Fozzy and Ogbannaya to fill in.  A solid OL will make it easier for that to work.

 

I believe we keep Stew and Fozzy for the 1 -2 punch and use Tolbert with 2013 scheme. The O-line has improved in the run game and with a Drafted OT we should have top running game next season.

[CRA]

Tolbert will be 30 next year and has looked meh when he has seen the field.

He isn't what we need next year

[bandu]

Those are also simply the rare featured RBs....so they have the best stats.

You give an undrafted kid like CJ Anderson featured RB snaps for 16 games and he would have top 5 stats too

heck he probably isn't the only RB in Denver that could have those numbers with heavy reps

its TALENT and thats exactly what we need in our backfield not some project to groom as our featured back.

[CRA]

its TALENT and thats exactly what we need in our backfield not some project to groom as our featured back.

Don't need to draft high rounds for Rb talent

[t96]

Those are also simply the rare featured RBs....so they have the best stats.

You give an undrafted kid like CJ Anderson featured RB snaps for 16 games and he would have top 5 stats too

heck he probably isn't the only RB in Denver that could have those numbers with heavy reps

 

Bell and Lynch are truly spectacular backs who are way better than a kid like Anderson. Anderson in Denver could put up those stats for 16 games because they have to respect the pass more than the run, but he wouldn't do that well in Seattle or Pittsburgh, in my opinion.

[Kevin Greene]

Those are also simply the rare featured RBs....so they have the best stats.

You give an undrafted kid like CJ Anderson featured RB snaps for 16 games and he would have top 5 stats too

heck he probably isn't the only RB in Denver that could have those numbers with heavy reps

 

 

Also of note the Seahawks acquired Lynch for a 4th round pick and a conditional, that is where the value was, Bills didn't get much from their original 1st round selection of Lynch.

As the Panthers haven't received value from the Stewart selection, or DWill for that matter especially when you factor the cap space those two have absorbed.

The 1st round Stewart selection also snow balled that same year into the idiot Hurney sending massive future/current draft picks to the Eagles so he could select Otah, we all know where that ended up.

[bandu]

Don't need to draft high rounds for Rb talent

so you are saying Dallas,Pittsburgh,and Seattle should have waited until later rounds to land their featured back?

Edit-Buffalo Bills drafted Marshawn Lynch.

[KillerKat]

Don't need to draft high rounds for Rb talent

Hell. probably don't even need to draft one. Just pick up a UDFA.

[Kevin Greene]

so you are saying Dallas,Pittsburgh,and Seattle should have waited until later rounds to land their featured back?

Edit-Buffalo Bills drafted Marshawn Lynch.

 

 

Where the Cowboy run game succeeds is the quality of their offensive line.

Hell, even DWill would look good back their today. 

[bandu]

Round 2 pick 53 LeSean McCoy 4th leading rusher in the NFL right now.and how did Barner work out?who would you rather pick for Stewart and D-Los replacement?

[davos]

I dreamt that J Stew ran for an NFL single game rushing record so this could be a good sign.

 

I also dreamt there was an alien invasion afterwards so I don't know about that.