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Originally Posted by Saul Good
They aren't. There's no doubt that Snyder used him a ton. My point is that you shouldn't worry about a RB having a short career. Use them while they last and toss them into the scrap heap. If you look at the great teams of the last decade or so, they don't tend to be teams with superstar RBs. This is especially true of the teams in the last several Super Bowls.
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He had almost 600 touches in his last two years of college, and that's not counting the reps he had at CC.
If you look at backs that were used heavily in college, almost none of them made an immediate impact:
Ron Dayne, Cedric Benson, Mike Hart, Kevin Smith. All of those guys got tons of touches, and even the ones that turned it around later in their careers, like Benson and Williams, were still monumental disappointments out of the gate.
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