Quote:I also thought this was the case, especially after that 20?ish yard TD run that he fumbled away going into the end zone. I was especially perplexed by this as watching the replay showed he covered the ball up with 2 hands to specifically guard from this happening. I assumed he was maybe just needed more arm/grip str since he wasn't a RB in college. Then I heard about his nerve problem in his hand which made it all make sense. However in the offseason Bradley said "With the time off this off-season and a lot of work, it came back for him." I assumed this meant that he wasn't having problems with it and would have a greater impact on the offense. Thinking about it now with the abysmal performance of Gerhart not leading to him getting more time I'm wondering if he had a setback with it.

 

Yeah the whole situation is a little perplexing.  To me Gerhart has been a huge let down.  *Part* of this is obviously the OL.  What we saw of D-Rob in pre-season certainly looked promising though.  Somebody else mentioned maybe the problem is that he's still having trouble in protection schemes.  I dunno.  I am starting to think of Todman as "just a guy" although he has some obvious physical skills.  We'll see how it progresses during the season but I wouldn't be surprised to see D-Rob get more play at some point during the season.

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