Quote:Looking at the league's draft history, I noticed that there have been very few RBs picked in the top five over the past decade, but that appears to be a relatively new trend. Starting around 10 years ago and further back as far as you want to go, drafting a RB in the top five was a rather common practice. In fact, RB is one of the most drafted positions in the top five after the few obvious positions like QB, DE and OT.

Not sure if i'm remembering correctly, but the draft with Ronnie Brown and Macalister (cannot recall his name) were highly drafted prospects. If I recall correctly, we drafted MJD the same year as Brown and we know how that turned out. I think it was a little after that time frame that RB's started to become devaued, also not a coincedence the QB's started to blow up the league and the RB wasn't the workhorse he once was. 

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