There was a fascinating discussion in the Comments section of a recent article debating whether or not running backs are 'interchangeable.' The impetus for the discussion was the idea that the...
While there are exceptions , almost all of the game-changing, field-tilting running backs in the last 3 decades was a first or second round pick. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
Some will say that I cherry-picked these players, but I didn’t. I simply started the research for this article by making a list of the best running backs I could think of and then added a couple that I had forgotten about after I pulled up the list ofI tried to limit the list to “modern” running backs but couldn’t keep Barry Sanders off the list. Mentioning Eric Dickerson in a couple of the sections put him on the “Other” list even though he entered the league 39 years ago.
Players I ended up excluding include Walter Payton , Tony Dorsett , Jim Brown , Marcus Allen , and Franco Harris . Including them wouldn’t have changed anything though as all 5 were first round picks - Brown , Payton , Harris , Dorsett , and Allen - and all of them currently have a bronze bust in the Hall of Fame.Again, I’m not saying that Kenneth Walker III is the next coming of Emmitt Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson, Marshawn Lynch, Shaun Alexander, et al.
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