(12-17-2018, 09:02 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(12-17-2018, 08:04 AM)SuperJville Wrote: The team also needs to play other running backs. Why? Because Fournette is unreliable. Half the time he’s either hurt or suspended so the offense really shouldn’t revolve around him until he proves he can be play.

I’m very lukewarm on Fournette.

We definitely need strong backups for the reasons you cite, but when he's in there, Fournette is a good back.   He's just got no blocking right now.

Fournette is a good back that requires good blocking. He lacks the skill set to improvise out of bad blocking and create yardage. Lots of other backs around the league possess that skill. 

That said - he actually did impress me yesterday by working his way back along the line to an open lane at one point yesterday.  So it's possible. He just rarely shows it. But on a subsequent drive he may have  left a TD on the field by cutting back inside when the sideline was wide open for a guy with his straight line speed. It's not that he's completely unable to do these things, he's just not nearly as good at it as a pretty large number of backs. 

• speed   -  check
  
• power  -   check (when healthy)
  
• field vision  -  rarely
  
• lateral agility  -  nope
  
• availability    -  not enough
  

So yeah, he's a good back behind a stout line, he's just not the total package you should be getting with that draft pick.

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