Some fun here. Edwards-Helaire rushed for 1,415 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior .. all-purpose yards -- receiving (55 receptions, 453 yards) and kick returner (KEY) 10 returns, 214 yards pic.twitter.com/3Duq1jjy6J
Holy offense Bat Man. I love Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He is best Rb in the draft. Watkins and Hill deep. Kelce in the middle. And Edwards-Helaire underneath. Good Luck defenses.
Brett Veach told Andy Reid to watch some Clyde Edwards-Helaire film and told Reid you’ll see Brian Westbrook. Reid watched. Then got back to Veach and said he’s better than Westbrook.
Originally Posted by O.city:
Ok, but you do realize that could very well be just outliers?
When teams are absolutely begging us to run I’m not going to get excited about 5 ypc unless it’s mixed in with multiple long ones being broken. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
RB just isn't one of those positions that takes 3 years to develop. They pretty much show what they got right away and that's that. We're not talking about a 5-tech DE, a NT, LT or a QB.
Which is why he's drawing the attention from fans that he is.
Yeah, especially ones taken in the first round. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
RB just isn't one of those positions that takes 3 years to develop. They pretty much show what they got right away and that's that. We're not talking about a 5-tech DE, a NT, LT or a QB.
Which is why he's drawing the attention from fans that he is.
Tell me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football without telling me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football. [Reply]
There is absolutely an argument to be made to draft a RB in the mid to late rounds every year. Keep fresh legs and trade them when they are about to get expensive. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
Tell me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football without telling me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football.
Holmes' also ran behind arguably the greatest O-Line assembled [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
Tell me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football without telling me you didn’t watch Priest Holmes play football.
Priest Holmes was a 1,000 yard rusher for Baltimore before being replaced by...(his name escapes me). He was averaging 5.0 YPC before even joining the Chiefs, so save me that snarky bullshit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
RB just isn't one of those positions that takes 3 years to develop. They pretty much show what they got right away and that's that. We're not talking about a 5-tech DE, a NT, LT or a QB.
Which is why he's drawing the attention from fans that he is.
I was thinking the same thing then I went and looked at Derrick Henry and he had 490 yds his rookie year and 744 in year 2 then in year 3 finally went over 1k.
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
I was thinking the same thing then I went and looked at Derrick Henry and he had 490 yds his rookie year and 744 in year 2 then in year 3 finally went over 1k.
IIRC, because he was sharing time as a part time player. They were RB by committee.
Like Priest Holmes who served backup to Jamal Lewis. Priest was a 1K rusher before they drafted Lewis, then had part time stats after.
Or Charles serving behind Johnson. As soon as Charles got his chance though...it was obvious. He didn't need 3 seasons of running to break out. He broke out right away. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
IIRC, because he was sharing time as a part time player. They were RB by committee.
Like Priest Holmes who served backup to Jamal Lewis. Priest was a 1K rusher before they drafted Lewis, then had part time stats after.
Or Charles serving behind Johnson. As soon as Charles got his chance though...it was obvious. He didn't need 3 seasons of running to break out. He broke out right away.
Ah yep you are right, he split time with DeMarco Murray..forgot about that guy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
I was thinking the same thing then I went and looked at Derrick Henry and he had 490 yds his rookie year and 744 in year 2 then in year 3 finally went over 1k.
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Priest Holmes was a 1,000 yard rusher for Baltimore before being replaced by...(his name escapes me). He was averaging 5.0 YPC before even joining the Chiefs, so save me that snarky bullshit.
In his first four years, he had one 1000 yard season. Even then, as you noted, it wasn't enough to keep his job.
If we're going to be fair, Clyde had around 800 yards last season in 13 games, averaging approximately (ypc) what Priest did in his "breakout" 1000 yards season. [Reply]
