Postby Shoreline Steamers » Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:46 pm
killer_of_giants wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 2:56 am
mild wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:45 pm
This is squarely a volume play, not a talent one.
i think everyone and his dog agrees with this. no one said he's like henry, hunt or pollard (none of which has ever been a pure "handcuff" like mattison).
he needs a lot of touches to get to a hundred yards, but he has a chance to be a back end RB1 this season. maaaybe two (i doubt it).
i don't think he's good enough to command the same amount of touches a healthy dalvin did, so i can see someone else in that backfield being given more of a run than what mattison got in the past 4 years.
Being admittedly oblivious to the Vikings current cap situation, I could situationally see them as possible contenders for a post Week 1 veteran RB addition. There's still several out there, and nobody's beating down the door to sign any of them. Grab one off the shelf for the price of a non-guaranteed contract. Instant RBBC (and diminished volume for Mattison).
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RB: J. Mixon, N. Chubb, A. Dillon, J. Cook, K. Mitchell, J. McLaughlin, Z. Evans
WR: J. Chase, C. Godwin, D. Johnson, J. Reed, C. Tillman
TE: TJ Hockenson, D. Njoku, B. Jordan
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RB: B. Robinson, K. Walker, R. Stevenson, K. Herbertl
WR: C. Olave, T. Higgins, B. Aiyuk, N. Collins, Z. Flowers, M. Mims
TE: K. Pitts, D. Njoku