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Eric Metcalf?
Ronnie Harmon?
1st rounders 3.4 & 3.2
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Eric Metcalf?
Ronnie Harmon?
1st rounders 3.4 & 3.2
Anyone remember Thurman Thomas? Very similar skills.
he's a good rookie and the best thing to come to this team,
Tiki wasnt even a 1st rounder, though. He still averaged 3.8 as a rookie. He never declared that his goal was to be the greatest ever. Bush is getting 2.6 per.
Would it be reasonable to compare rookie YPCs from first round RBs of Bush's stature?
Faulk 2nd pick~~~4.1
Dunn 12th pick~~~4.4
Bennett 27th pick~4.0
Portis 2nd Round~5.5
Parker undrafted~5.8
Westbrook barely made it out in the 3rd round, yet has never averaged under 4. The season is only 1/2 over....
Faulk - feature back
Dunn - feature back
Bennett - feature back
Portis - feature back
Parker - feature back (when he's not hurt) - and he's also never topped 200 carries or 1,000 yards rushing
Westbrook - feature back
Bush - NOT the feature back
And Portis doesn't count, he played for Denver. My dead grandma could still pop 3 yards a carry behind that line. Also, neither Westbrook and Parker had significant carries as a rookie so their rookie averages mean nada. That 5.8 for Parker was on 32 carries. Not bad, but all it takes is 1 good 60-yard run and your average is spiked.
Deuce had 16 carries for 91 yards as a rookie, but 1 of those runs was for 54 yards. Take that one away and Deuce went 37 yards on 15 carries for a 2.5 average.
If Reggie continues on his current pace of 207 yards on 81 carries for the rest of the year, except adds just 3 60-yard runs (just call it "blind squirrel finds a nut" for those who can't take theoreticals), his average would jump from the current 2.6 to 3.7. So just 3 rushes that go 60; an end-around, a reverse, a blown assignment, a trick play, or he just finally breaks that one tackle that turns a TD into a 4-yarder. Let him play all 16 before we expect an All-Pro, 'kay? Heck, he hasn't even been able to legally drink fo a year yet! He should technically be in some 300-level course at USC, so cut him some slack. He has enough pressure to be the greatest whoever played, no reason to put more on him. That's really all we are doing when we complain about him. Our animosity towards him builds, and pretty soon we'll be hearing boos in the Superdome when he performs poorly. Young guys like Bush need encouragement.
Tiki Barber is actually a fairly good comparison. Tiki was not a good running back his first 4 or so years in the NFL (by his own admission).
Ideally, Bush will develop into a style similiar to Tiki's (both are fairly similiar).
Bush isn't the next Gale Sayers (because of how the NFL has involved there is no longer such a thing as "the next Gale Sayers", it's like saying "the next YA Tittle"), he's the next Tiki Barber (hopefully).