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"Who wants to be a millionaire running back?"

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Anonymous eh said...

These days, Campbell mostly gets around in a wheelchair.

Sad.

He was even more amazing at Texas.

12/1/09, 12:00 AM

Anonymous OneSTDV said...

"And starting running backs are always getting hurt or just wearing out at age 26 or whenever"

The age line is usually considered to be 30.

Only a handful of guys have ever had 1000 yard seasons past 30, the mso trecent being Curtis Martin I believe.

Look at Tomlinson this year, on pace for something like 600 yards.

There's also the case where a running back has set the carries record over a given season or two aand then the very next season completely fallen apart. Some recent examples of guys with a huge amount of carries and yards who this happened to: Priest Holmes, Jamal Anderson, Larry Johnson, and possibly Michael Turner this year (I swear there's many more I just can't think of them).

Both Barry Sanders and Robert Smith (vikings rb in the late 90's) retired very early to avoid the lniog term effects of being an NFL RB.

12/1/09, 5:51 AM

Anonymous airtommy said...

Regarding the movement of a running back to the fullback position:

Fullback is the most devastating position in football. It's nothing but high-speed collisions. Those guys have the shortest careers, and I would guess they have the most lifetime suffering.

12/1/09, 8:39 AM

Blogger Truth said...

"Fullback is the most devastating position in football. It's nothing but high-speed collisions. Those guys have the shortest careers"

You would think so, but not true, fullbacks last much longer than halfbacks. Lorenzo Neal, possibly the greatest fullback ever retired last year after 15 seasons, and he was playing at a pro-bowl level when he quit.

Fullbacks are usually blockers, ergo they are initiating high hits with defenders who want do no want to engage them, but want to go around them to make tackles. HBs on the other hand are constantly being hit below the waist by tacklers who want to take them down.

Fullbacks who get injured are generally catching pases a la Heath Evans.

12/1/09, 3:56 PM

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