(12-26-2021, 09:32 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(12-26-2021, 08:57 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: So you can’t answer my question can you? Probably because you know that it would take hundreds of picks before the first RB is taken.

The RB position may be the least valuable position in football because it’s easily replaced.

I was curious, so I looked it up.  The facts do not support you.  If you look at the top 10 rushers in the NFL as of the time of this writing, 10 out of 10 were drafted in the top 100.  The lowest drafted went at #66 overall.  He was the only third round pick to make the list and that's a very early third rounder.  9 out of the top 10 rushers in NFL were either first or second round picks.  The good running backs do tend to go early.

but most of those guys went in the second and third rounds, excepting of course Elliott (4), Harris(24). I looked it up, too.  Here's the draft selection, in order for the top rushers: 41, 48, 35, 41, 24, 45, 4, 66, 87, 35.

So 8 of 10 of the top rushers went after where Etienne was picked. We robbed ourselves of value when we made that pick. For the sake of our team's future the hope has to be that he recovers and can play at high level for many years. Because, as we can see, we gave up much to bring him on board. If he does not return to form, it will have set us back not only for having to replace his spot, but in the other players we passed on to make his selection.

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