12-03-2021, 05:51 PM
(12-01-2021, 06:51 PM)BengalFanInCanada Wrote: I don’t think he lost a year of playing by sitting out.
He had only so many carries left, he just extended them to the next year.
Don't think it works like that with RBs. You spend an entire year not being a RB, which doesn't help, and then you get 1 year older which is fatal for RBs. Obviously a 400 touch workload will shorten a career, but I still think the biggest wall for RBs is age. You lose that half step advantage that you had on defenders and it's over. (Speaking on a general basis, of course. You can always point out exceptions.)
RBs have been getting less carries than they used to. The bell cow RB is basically extinct. Yet RB careers don't seem to be getting longer in return.
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