re: Alabama running back reputation could drag down Derrick Henry in Draft

I could have sworn a guy named Alfred Blue ALSO started last year for 9 games while the Ricky Wiiliams of Knoxville was hurt?

Extrapolate his numbers over a 16 game season and whatcha got?

You had me fooled, Vandy Guy. They said you guys were smart. I have no idea what the frick you are even doing here anymore.:

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Go ahead and name another source that analyzes football as close as ProFootballFocus.

Hint: there isn't one.

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yes there is, football outsiders for one. And you know who im sure did some very close analysis of dre kirkpatrick's performance in 2015? The Bengals (one of the top defenses in the nfl), before they decided to pay him about the same for his 5th year as the previous 4 put together, with the benefit of knowing what was actually supposed to happen on each play. PFF is essentially a murky black box of an eye test playing around like a real metric

What?

You watched the game? Punk had his clothesline arse handed to him. Over and over again.

Yep but you still gonna ignore the 405 touches last season? That is insane, especially for college. NFL RB's don't rush the ball close to that amount. In fact here is a good chart to show the rushes by NFL rbs. DH only had 11 receptions, so that makes it 394 rushing attempts in 15 games. That comes out to 26.26 rushes a game. The leading RB in the NFL average was 22.8 by Leveon Bell and we saw what happened to him.

That is the whole point of the article, that Bama RBs get over used in college. Luckily DH was only over used for just 1 season. But the stigma that Bama does over work their players in college, does seem true. You ain't gotta get all butt hurt over it.

2015 is the only year where Bama hasn't had a true RB tandem. The stigma is fabricated.

You only posted Henry's touches in 2015. Everyone knows those were rare circumstances. Kamara, and Tennpenny both left the team. Bo Scarborough tore an ACL and Kenyan Drake was recovering from an injury. DeSherrius Flowers was ruled inelgible after enrolling and practing for months. The only viable option was a true freshman who played highschool ball in Kentucky.

In 2008 Glen Coffee lead Bama in carries with 233 carries.

In 2009 Ingram won the Heisman on 271 carries.

2010 Mark Ingram lead the team with 158.

Trent Richardson in 2011 with 283 carries.

Eddie lacy led with 204 in 2012.

Yeldon lead in 2013 with 207 carries.

He lead again in 2014 with 194 carries.

Henry's carries are clearly an anomaly.

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Richardson was the worst of the bunch. He had no vision whatsoever and got by on his brute force.

Henry has size & vision but limited lateral quickness and low initial burst.

He's a classic 1-cut runner but his first NFL OL will make or break his career.

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All of this is accurate. Yeldon has great NFL potential IMO.

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You only posted Henry's touches in 2015.

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If you can read, I said that the good thing is that he only was overused for 1 season. So there was no need to post his previous seasons as he never came close to 400 touches.


I love how you say it is an anomaly to get 400 carries, which is true, but that still doesn't take away from the fact that Henry was overused. It isn't a concept that is hard to understand here.

Also consider that DH had 2 games with only 13 and 9 rushes. Is it also an anomaly for Henry to rush the ball over 30 times 3 times and for him to run the ball over 40 times in 2 games. For an anomaly, these high arse rushing attempts seem to happen pretty frequent.

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He doesn't play that way on the field.

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dumb