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Originally Posted by milkshock
For ****s sake McCluster was played WR later in his career. Drafted as and began his career as an RB I mean he had 500 rushing yards in his second year.
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He played stupid Todd Haley reerun gadget WR early in his career. McCluster was too slow and stupid to convert fully, but Haley really wanted him running in the slot on base plays. So they force fed him the ball and even helped him out by lining him up out of the backfield until he could figure his shit out. Meanwhile, the whole, "Let's figure out how to get him the ball in space!" was always a wasted play because he wasn't always the best option. Those were very inefficient plays considering we had a much faster and lethal player we should have focused on getting the ball in space to-- Jamaal Charles.
In 2011 they moved him back to RB, and then brought him back to reerun gadget WR in 2012. Reid finally figured out what was reeruned about McCluster and got him playing slot in 2013, though.
It's quite disingenuous to say McCluster was a RB for any season but his 2nd year in KC. And it's even more disingenuous to compare the two players, since McCluster was a huge pussy who went down if you aggressively looked at him, and CEH can actually do a pretty damn good job of breaking tackles in this league.