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L.A. Rams
April 17, 2016
There have been a couple of notable exceptions – Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck – but it’s far more common for quarterbacks to struggle in their first year.
In this century, 42 have b...
Jamaal Charles
April 16, 2016
Contrasting that to Jerome Bettis and Curtis Martin (two backs recently added to the Hall of Fame) those guys never reached 5 yards per carry in their careers...
Second-round wideouts
April 16, 2016
Over the past decade, there have been 39 other wide receivers selected in the second round of the draft...
Cleveland Browns
April 15, 2016
And Jackson loves him some running game near the goal line. He likes to keep it on the ground in that part of the field, pounding it in...
Cleveland Browns
April 14, 2016
In an article posted at CBS Sports Jason La Canfora suggests that the Browns will take Goff rather than Wentz...
Laquon Treadwell
April 13, 2016
Speed isn’t everything, of course. Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin and Cris Carter weren’t burners when they were drafted in the ‘80s...
Sophomore receivers
April 12, 2016
For this one, I pulled up the list of all rookie wide receivers (I think) who scored at least 100 fantasy points in their first year...
Young quarterbacks
April 11, 2016
For this kind of question, it’s always nice to look at what other players in similar situations have done in previous years...
Derrick Henry
April 11, 2016
Among the 124 running backs drafted in the first three rounds since 2000 -- that is, selected with the likelihood they might be viable NFL starters -- about a quarter of them (29) scored at least 2...
Quarterbacks
April 10, 2016
As with running backs, I’m not listing all of them. Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick, for example, played in only one half of the season each...
Jared Goff
April 10, 2016
With Goff, one red flag is the fact that he threw 13 interceptions in his final season at college. Over the last 20 years, there have been 53 quarterbacks selected in the first round...
Minnesota Vikings
April 9, 2016
Turner has been in the league forever, and he’s long been a strong proponent of have his wide receivers consistently challenge defenses with vertical routes...
C.J. Anderson
April 8, 2016
So check out this chart. It shows the 33 running backs last year that carried the ball at least 50 times in the first half of the season, and also carried the ball in the second half of the year...
Atlanta Falcons
April 7, 2016
But the offense scored only 35 touchdowns last year (3 below the league average) and it got worse as the year wore on...
Hue Jackson
April 6, 2016
He’s been with the Bengals for the last two years as the offensive coordinator, and Cincinnati in that time has run the ball on a higher percentage of plays than any team other than Seattle...
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