It's unfortunate, but it's a part of the game and out of anyones control. The reaction of this board you'd think that Trevor Lawrence had suffered a season ending injury not Etienne.

We still have James Robinson, it's not like we're now devoid of talent at RB to take pressure off Lawrence. Etienne will be back next season; Linsfranc injuries are bad news but Brian Westbrook, Leveon Bell, & Julio Jones all went on to have career years immediately following a Lisfranc injury the season prior.

I figured at BEST if several things went right we might compete for the last wildcard spot, or injuries to Derrick Henry, other QB's etc. make an easy path for us to contend in the division. As long as Trevor develops and stays healthy this season is a win.

I'm reserving judgement on the Etienne pick until I actually get to see him play next year. As much as people hate RB's in the first, guys like Rashard Mendenhall & Chris Johnson went back to back late in the first round and they worked out just fine. If Chris "CJ2K" Johnson were to have suffered a similar circumstance in that he missed his rookie year and came back 100% the next year, and went on to have the same success I think every Tacks fan would be very cool with that. I think Etienne has the homerun hitting potential to be a "budlight version" of what Chis Johnson was for those late 2000's Tacks teams. Let the kid play before we go to the Modis building, he really doesn't deserve this amount of hate and backlash and i'll bet he feels just as torn up as most on this board do.

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