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Originally Posted by Mecca
Touches and carries are 2 different things........400+ carries almost always equals a down turn in production. All the backs that carried over 400 times dealt with injury issues following it...that's how the ACL is relatd to his 410 carries.
Jamal Lewis isn't half the player he once was and he's blown both his ACL's.....that might be the comparison of what LJ will be in 2-3 years.
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Yeah, the heavy load Kimble Anders was forced to carry the year before is why his achiles tendon went out too.
Not to mention Sylvester Morris and his ACL.
And touches aren't the same as carries? So that means a RB doesn't get hit when he catches a pass?
Like I said, explain to me exactly how a player is more prone to injury after 1 big year? It seems to me that he would be more prone due to hits in his knees, not carries in general. It would also seem to me that the player would be more prone to injury towards the end of the season with all the carries - when his body is tired and beat up rather than in the seasons following.
There is no doubt that the longer a RB plays, the more inclined he is to injury. But to say that history, stats, or whatever indicate that a player's career is ALMOST ALWAYS over within a year or two of a big seaso is a bit of a stretch IMO. One name isn't going to support the "almost always" arguement IMO.
Here's a site I found about ACL injuries...
http://www.stockton.edu/ospreys/ACL/NflAcl.htm
Interestingly the most ACLs occur in the summer months when players are in the poorest condition.
Also, RBs are the one position with the highest number of incidents - I'm sure the denver chop blocking is taking a toll on DL though.