Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12126130)

:facepalm:

This is 2016, not 2008. An undrafted free agent running back was the Bronco's only offense in the Super Bowl and they allowed him to walk.

Richardson, Ball, Ingrahm, Vereen and Spiller have been nothing short of wasted picks and busts (Richardson busted TWICE). The Colts, Browns, Broncos, Saints, Bills and Patriots made terrible decisions and wasted valuable resources.

Eddie Lacy had a decent rookie campaign followed by a disastrous season in which the coach told him to lose 50 pounds. Another poor pick.

As for Forte, he's the only guy that's been an impact player on that list, and he was taken in 2008, the same year as Charles. He's basically been the Bears offense since that time and was cut because he couldn't be traded. Again, 3 years, $12 million, and no significant injuries that required surgery (unlike Charles).

Ray Rice? You're going to use Ray Rice as an example? Not only has he been out of the league for 2 years, at age 26, he averaged a paltry 3.1 yards per carry. The wheels fell off quickly.

Gurley is a talented back that helped the Rams and their archaic offense in 2015 but the story is still unfolding. He looks like a special player but only time will tell if he can be productive year in and year out and avoid another ACL injury.

Once again, no one is giving up a pick for Jamaal Charles.

Originally Posted by DenverChief (Post 12126192)

The argument you made was no one takes RBs with high draft picks anymore. I just provided a list of RBs that were taken in the first two rounds (that have any kind of name recognition) in the last 8 drafts. So contrary to what you claim teams still do and will continue to draft RBs in the first two rounds of the draft thus using high picks for something YOU claim can be had at the UDFA level. While I'm not disagreeing there are talented UDFA RBs to say that no one ever drafts a RB with a top #100 pick is lunacy.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12126200)

And the overwhelming majority were BUSTS.

The best player on that list was taken 8 YEARS AGO.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 12126218)

Running backs are valuable, but can be found anywhere.

If Charles wasn't coming off an acl, you might be able to get a 4th or 3rd. But paired with his contract, no one's trading for him this year.

Originally Posted by DenverChief (Post 12126249)

Contracts can be reworked. If we featured him in the PS to show he is as good as it gets again we could squeeze some value out of him.

Now if he has problems recovering from the injury it's bye bye anyway.