It appears the Kellen Moore thing may be shaky

JackDiesel said

It's crazy that only 4 other teams considered him as a FA. Texans offered him $11 million, Bears and Chargers considered him but went with other far inferior directions, and the Ravens considered him and went with Derrick Henry.

Top WR's are making $30-$40 million, the best RB's are fighting for $13-16 million. The fact that Barkley had to fight for $13 million is crazy.

The Moneyball aspect of this is insanely interesting. The last 2 years the NFC Super Bowl team featured elite RB play with efficient but average QB play. Everyone is chasing the elite QB/WR duo but that's almost $100 million between two players when you can spend $15 million on an elite RB and invest the difference in the rest of the team.

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Completely agree, but it feels like a renaissance is coming for the RB position. We’ve all kind of discussed, so I won’t pretend to have some sort of “new theory” but schematics on offense cyclically changes to attack changing defenses.

As defenses get faster but smaller in the front 7 to counteract pass-heavy offenses, teams are jumping out in front and going with more grind-style offensive lineman/scrum plays. The Bills rode that scrum heavy O to the AFC Championship. It happened a bit in the mid-teens with Seattle, as well.

Not to mention, longevity for RBs is changing. Derrick Henry’s skill set at his age with his need to have the long-speed would have essentially been twilighting 10 years ago. I believe he set his career high on the GPS for MPH on a carry this year. Wild to do in your 30s after the volume he’s had in his career.

And this year was such an eye-opener (I’d hope) for NFL teams around the league. 5 of the top 8 (Barkley, Henry, Mixon, Jacobs, Aaron Jones) in offensive efficiency and YPG were FA signings. I think RBs are going to reestablish high value soon.