Quote:20 attempts vs 76 attempts

 

Robinson had a couple long runs, and the majority of his runs were negative yardage. Todman was certainly better. 

 

Todman was noticably the best RB on the roster last year by a significant margin, particularly on outside zone stretch.   Those impressive  explosion metrics that he put up during his Combine were evident, because he's got a pretty dynamic burst .  

 

 Also, you can't just solely judge ypc until you take into account down and distance and how many defenders they were in the box against.   A lot of nickel backs have padded ypc because they  take the draw for 8 yards on 3rd and 12 against a dime defense  as the team concedes to punt.   

 

I think Robinson is a longshot to make the roster.   I had hopes for him if he could be a dynamic returner, play slot and play some RB ... maybe a player like that can warrant a game day activation who could provide depth to multiple positions.  However, now that he's strictly a RB, I think the odds are stacked against him.   #3 RBs who can't contribute 15-20 snaps  on special teams and can't pass protect are virtually useless.    Backup role RBs are a dime a dozen,  there's no point in keeping one on the roster who's going to knock your QB out for the season because he didn't pick up his blitz assignment.  

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