The journey of Chris Ivory: Dismissed, discarded and, finally, celebrated

Anybody who watched him play knew that he was a really good, starting NFL caliber RB. There was never a question about that. The issue was, is, and will always be durability. The guy had some type of injury every year of his career going back to high school.

So what does a franchise do with a player like that? You know that a player can play at a high level but you also know that his availability will be up in the air week to week. It's easy to look back and say what the Saints should have done now that he's healthy and playing in offense tailor made for his skill set.

And it's all a moot point really because the fact is that no RB is going to put up out of this world numbers in this offense. SP is committed to his version of the RBBC where touches are given out seemingly at random.