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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
In this day in age, there's simply no excuse for not walking into the season with two good running back options. They're not hard to find. The Steelers have twice tried to make things work with Jonathan Dwyer, a RB so bad that he was cut and nobody picked him up. And even in terms of the first effort, a washed out Steven Jackson, Brown, and Bell... those aren't names that exactly pop off the page.
You saw what a night and day difference Laveon Bell made for the Steelers. And he's not even all-world. If your team has a game manager, it should be common sense that running back should be one of your top priorities, and it's not a hard position to find.
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I agree. I actually think I'd be more likely to invest in offensive line help these days though. I don't think it's a coincidence that all of those teams had line issues save for the Ravens, but that's probably just because Ray Rice sucks and Caldwell is an unimaginative play caller.
Plus running backs just aren't as valuable as they once were and these days you can find pretty good ones in later rounds. Take the Vermeil approach and you could practically put anybody back there (assuming you just want him to run the ball, of course).