08-20-2015, 03:28 PM
(08-20-2015, 03:20 PM)Shady Wrote: I was doing a post-doc at Penn State during KJ's senior year, when he and Kerry Collins should have won a national title. I can't blame the Bengals for drafting him, and I was stoked when we did. He was one of the best backs I ever watched play at the college level. I think his injury sort of pushed this franchise downhill, sort of like the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth.
We'll never know how could KJ could have been, or how good we could have been with him and Blake in our backfield. That's the tragic part for us. Think of what that injury meant to him.
I remember watching him in college and thought the same thing. He was amazing in college, and I was stoked when we traded up to draft him.
I don't consider him a bust, I consider him a tragedy. He should have had a great NFL career, but the injury obviously took a toll on him. With the advancement of orthopedics today who knows if his career would have turned out differently, but I'd like to think it would have.
Sad story.
