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Originally Posted by DrSpaceman
Dominic Rhodes was undrafted and in 2001 ran for 1000 yards in basically 10 games or so for the Colts.
Not so rare, even for this team
ALso on a side note........Rhodes only rushed for about 3200 yards in his NFL career. Thought it would be more.
And he was the United Football League offensive player of the year in 2011 for the Virginia Destroyers. They won the title that year, out of 4 teams.
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True, I'm not saying you can't find them, but that was almost 20 years ago. That is kind of rare to me. Also, Rhodes had a lot of complementary talent around him, no one was scheming to shut him down. Marvin was the juggernaut of the offense that year. We also had Wayne (bad rookie year though), Wilkins, Pathon (Mr. I have to jump when I catch the ball because running and catching at the same time is too hard), Dilger, Pollard. That was a passing offense and that is what people were trying to shut down.
This team has TY and Ebron as matchup problem players. Doyle is a good all around TE but he doesn't scare anyone. We need another weapon on offense whether that is a dual threat RB like Bell, or a second WR. Bell makes sense because we have the money and he should be a FA. There might be other RB options through FA as well. The WR FA class looks mediocre coming up and drafting a WR will take some time to develop. We could draft a RB and there are some candidates, but the class is not as good as the last couple years. Also we likely would have to use a top 90 pick on the RB if we wanted to try to find a good dual threat. That is just the basic odds of success when drafting.
We should also think about finding TY's replacement as a number 1, he will be 30 next year.