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Originally Posted by Reavant
ummm have you been watching the season at all???
Jones-Drew
Forte
Fred Jackson
Gore
Lynch
Steven Jackson
Ray Rice
do you watch football???
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A lot of those guys aren't that special. You're naming a bunch of Clinton Portis fantasy football running backs on perennial 7-9 teams. They vacillate from season to season with ok years, but I don't think there would be too much of a difference in most of those teams if they had different guys in that spot.
I think a lot of that has to do with teams that base their entire offense on one player. Usually teams who have a guy with a monstrous amount of rushing yards are pretty average/poor teams in general. What was the last team that went to a Super Bowl based on their running back having a really good year? The Seattle Seahawks with Shaun Alexander is the last one that comes to mind, but they also had the best offensive line in the league and a very agile defense. The teams that have players who yield high rushing yards are teams like Jacksonville, St. Louis, Tennessee that have little else going for them offensively. Obviously you still have good teams that have solid running games like Houston and New Orleans and San Francisco, but the position, in particular when it comes to having a "franchise running back," appears to be less vital than it has been in past years.