Quote:At his size Denard is a pretty remarkable athlete and unlike Cory Grant and those like him he has shown and ability to break an arm tackle. I wasn't arguing that he has outperformed injured guys I was saying this is how he compares to the RBs drafted ahead of him. I didn't do turnovers and that is a mistake. Of course I would go as far as to say every team that drafted a RB before we did that year has a better offensive line than us. I think a lot of people on here are blaming Denard for some subpar offensive line play that is regularly hitting RBs in the backfield at the point of the handoff causing fumbles. He has improved every year since he has been in the league give him a line to block and watch him fly its too early to give up on him.

Denard has very average size. Corey Grant breaks tackles better than him. I don't put any criticism upon Denard for his carry average, or even running style, albeit not a natural one. That same line that you are blaming for Denards fumbles didn't cause any fumbles for Yeldon on significantly more carries - and ball security was a knock on Yeldon from college. Yeldon also doesnt drop easy catches very often like Denard does.


Denard is a good athlete, but if he doesn't develop some hands soon, he is not only going to be cut from our roster, but unemployed entirely. This team has already shown an enormous amount of patience with him.

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