Talking Draft Prospects

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Yeah, three 1st rounders on that OL. Gore's had solid-to-great runblocking for at LEAST part of that stretch. Gore's also been more injury prone, while George was one of the most durable RBs the league's ever seen.

Why wouldn't he recover mentally? In recent years, the track record for extremely talented RBs coming back from ACLs has been sterling.

Gore rushed for 1698 yards the year before Joe Staley, the first of the first rounders you mention, joined the team. Staley, who's from CMU (like Eric Fisher) took a few years to develop. Iupati and Davis didn't arrive until 2010.

Eddie George's ran for career high 1509 yards behind HOFer Bruce Matthews and very good linemen in Brad Hopkins and Benji Olsen.

I'll take Gore over George any day of the week.