(10-27-2017, 11:29 AM)FreeAgent01 Wrote: Yeldon gets a lot of undue hate around here.  Too many think that he is some terrible running back.  He is the most shifty running back we have with good size to finish runs whenever he does get low.  He's an above average running back.

At this point he's pretty much indispensable for a couple of reasons.  Fournette is banged up and we need him to split carries with Ivory if Fournette misses any time.  Next season, I could very easily see the Jags giving Ivory his walking papers because of his contract, which would make Yeldon the primary backup unless we were to highly draft another running back, which is unlikely.

Just because he's the most "shifty" RB on our team, doesn't mean he's good. It just means we've done a bad job filling the RB position, before we drafted Fournette. If we got rid of both Ivory and Yeldon, why would we have to spend a high draft pick on a backup RB? Why not a mid round pick? RB's tend to slip in the draft anyway. The Leonard Fournette's of the world, who are sure-fire first round picks, don't come along very often. Most years, you can get a solid RB in the middle rounds, especially when you're just needing a change of pace backup. I want someone who is more consistent than Yeldon. He's been terribly inconsistent his entire time here. Consistency is a key component of RB. Guys like Tarik Cohen, Tevin Coleman, Alvin Kamara and Chris Thompson are the perfect change of pace guys. All of them were taken in the 3rd, 4th and 5th rounds.

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