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Originally Posted by Generic White Guy
Way too early to take an RB... Look at the history of running back taken in the Top 10... Trent Richardson had all of the hype that Elliott has now and we was a disaster... RBs have short careers.....
Go back 5 years and look at Super Bowl teams... With the exception of the Seahawks and Lynch, teams get there without a dominant single back...
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Using the example of a (slow, no vision, stiff-hipped) RB selected by the
Cleveland Browns is pointless. That franchise has been a rudderless ship for years with zero direction....(and sure, while the media-driven "hype machine" pumped up both RB's, Zeke has so many more NFL-ready skill sets than Richardson ever did.....look it up, it's not even close.)
While today's NFL is quite a bit different than 4 decades or so ago, the game remains the same: if you block, tackle, take care of the football
and have a strong running game; you figure to win a lot football games. That mandate remains the same no matter what decade you're in....or how many rules the league continues to make up in order to open the passing game up even moreso.
That said, that's why you draft transcendent RB's like a Tony Dorsett, Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith, Earl Campbell, Bo Jackson when they're on the board (and that means early in the first round....you ain't finding these guys in the 5th or 6th rounds).
By no means am I stating Zeke is a future HOF'er per the aforementioned names. However, with the O-line he'll be running behind, I'm somewhat tempted to wager his NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award is simply a formality.