Le'Veon Bell Wants to be a Colt

[DrSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

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.

The point is, those are just two random examples, just off the top of our heads, of undrafted rookies that made at great in the NFL as RBs. That is not all of them.

That doesn't include any number of lower round picks that also performed great at RB.

So no, you don't need a top 90 pick at RB to find a "dual threat", necessarily. You can find RBs throughout the draft.

And needs at WR are not just as a future #1 to replace TY, but to upgrade the entire unit. Its weak overall beyond him. Would much rather use draft picks and/or money on that rather than on signing bell.