A positive - Chase Brown

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(12-29-2024, 09:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Turns out if you get almost all the RB touches you have more yards, and if you have to split workloads you have less yards. Even if you're much less productive on a per-touch basis.

Hill had a nearly 50-50 split with Bernard (249 vs 211)
Bernard had a nearly 50-50 split with BJGE (226 to 224)

Brown has nearly a 75-25 split with Moss (283 to 97)

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That's a bit like saying Cedric Benson was more productive in 2010 (349 touches to Scott's 72) than Bernard was in 2013.

Sure Benson had 80 more scrimmage yards, but he also had 123 more touches.

Same with guys like Jerome Bettis who were just volume merchants on a mediocre offense held up by a great defense. 368 touches at 3.9 yards per touch in 2000 is still enough to put him ahead of Chase Brown with 1,438 yards from scrimmage.. but it took him 100 more touches to get there.

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I'm still ready to give him a healthy workload next year, but we need another RB to pair with him that'll get a pretty substantial amount of touches (and to clean out the entire rest of the RB room).

I'm fine adding a RB, but not until Day 3.
There are too many other more important positions to address on Day 1 and Day 2 that should be (far) more impactful than a RB2.
DL, IOL are the main ones for me, possibly pass catcher or DB too depending on who walks or gets cut.