10-21-2022, 12:26 PM
(10-21-2022, 12:00 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Running back is a highly overrated position. I promise you, the drop in production between Perine and Mixon would hardly be noticeable. I understand that Mixon is a huge fan favorite, so many won't fall in line with the idea. Mixon does nothing at an elite level. Since 2020, Perine has actually been a more efficient player than Mixon, just on lesser volume.
Perine is a 3D back for a reason. He has shown no capacity for a full workload as a pro. He was never drafted to be a feature. He is also 27 years old in a league that increasingly favors 25 and younger (Mixon is 26). He is as vanilla as it gets. On the other hand, you are sort of preaching to the choir. If we spent a Day 3 on a new RB every year, I wouldn't be against that strategy. The difference is we'd need to bring them in from Week 1, and integrate them accordingly, as opposed to throwing them into the fire midway through the year and forcing them to adapt to a whole host of new responsibilities as we'd be doing with SAM PERINE.
Mixon has never been my favorite player but he is completely underrated by fans these days. The guy is borderline PBer. He's equally deployable as a feature or in the margins. He doesn't crack under the spotlight, nor does he demand touches- but he can handle them. He's a steady, bona fide contributor to a Super Bowl team. Perine is a backup whose most productive season when he was a freshman almost a decade ago. There is no comparison.
