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Originally Posted by SCTrojan
I normally stay out of threads about USC players because of my obvious bias. But the simple reason that Reggie Bush did not get 20 + carries regularly was that USC didn't need him to do that to win football games. When you have Leinart handing off to White, throwing to Mike Williams, Dwayne Jarrett, Steve Smith and Dominique Byrd, you don't need one guy to carry the load to be effective. The last three seasons bear that philosophy out.
As for the Texans move of drafting Mario Williams ahead of Reggie or Vince Young, for that matter, I think it's a big gamble at best. You can count on one hand the number of defensive ends that have changed the fortunes of a franchise. There are many more RBs and QBs who have done that.
The draft is what it is - the hope that the potential you see translates to actual production on the field for a prolonged period of time. I've never seen Williams play, but I think Houston could have traded down and still picked him. IMO, the bottom line is the only way this works out for them is if Williams is a Reggie White-like transcendent player and Reggie Bush and Vince Young turn out to be only so-so players. That's an awful big risk to take with the first pick no matter what their motivation for taking it.
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Mike Williams hasn't played on the team in almost 3 years. The big gamble would have been to spend that much on an unproven RB that doesn't carry the ball more than 15 times a game against college/highschool talent. Reggie Bush is going to be a great player, and so is MArio Williams. Bottom line....Reggie Bush isn't going to stop Peyton Manning.....he doesn't even have a chance...Mario Williams does.