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Originally Posted by BossChief
Top 10 rushers in the NFL last year with similar speed to Hunt...
Jordan Howard ran a 4.59 at his proday
Jay Ajay ran a 4.57
Leveon Bell ran a 4.6
Lagarette Blount ran a 4.59
Devonte Freeman ran a 4.58
Basically half of the leagues top 10 rushers had Similar breakaway speed as Hunt.
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And only Bell is a genuine breakaway threat.
Again - my issue isn't that Hunt is a bad player, it's that he's a redundant one. Howard and Ajay are seen as bangers (and let's pump the brakes a bit on Ajayi, he was being seen as a bust and was inactive in game 1 until he got force-fed the football; he's a volume producer). LaGarrette Blount is genuinely
sloooooooow.
Spencer Ware and Kareem Hunt are just very similar players. Now if this is a sign that they intend to move on from Ware after this season, then so be it. I'd have no problem not giving Ware a long-term contract with his running style.
But this guy isn't an upgrade on Ware and I don't see him as a complement to Ware either. He's just a guy that can share the workload with Ware and in the process give you a very similar level of production. Perhaps that's their thought; give Ware help and he won't hit that wall that he hit last season.