Elijah Moore, Njoku, other Thoughts
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they can't just give Hunt the entire workload before he plays himself into game shape.
When the game starts, he'll have been on the team for a week and a half. However, he was on the team last year. And Ford didn't do much all preseason as he was hurt with a hamstring. Most all of the preseason game reps went to Felton and John Kelly. (wasn't the preseason at RB just to have some guys play the position so the OL could practice blocking? I mean, none of the guys that played are on the team)
When the game starts, he'll have been on the team for a week and a half. However, he was on the team last year. And Ford didn't do much all preseason as he was hurt with a hamstring. Most all of the preseason game reps went to Felton and John Kelly. (wasn't the preseason at RB just to have some guys play the position so the OL could practice blocking? I mean, none of the guys that played are on the team)
Exactly, so did you see Ford with a full workload against the Bengals? No. Did you see Ford with a full workload against the Steelers? No. Did you see Ford with a full work load vrs the Titans? No. Ford did participate in the OTAs so it was a little different than Hunt's situation. He missed about 3-4 weeks of training camp to an injury, which had him working with the athletic trainers during time missed.
Anyway, Ford was cleared to practice on August 31st and the Browns opener was on September 10th vrs Cincy where Chubb had 18 carries 4 receptions to Ford's 15 carries 0 receptions, Sept 18th vrs Pitt Chubb had 10 carries and 0 receptions in just 1.5 quarters to Ford's 16 carries 3 receptions in 2.5 quarters, Sept 24th Ford had 10 carries 2 receptions to Hunt's 5 carries for 13 yards and 2 rec for 22 yards.
I could be wrong here but I don't think any of the RBs on the roster are going to get the type of workload Chubb was projected to get prior to his injury. If you were reading the discussion I was in - I was being optimistic about Hunt. Having said that, you don't go from being unemployed at RB (with no training camp or NFL contact/hitting) to getting 85-90% of the carries within 2 weeks of signing unless you want to increase his risk of getting a soft tissue injury/pulled hammy or groin from too much too soon. Each week they'll probably increase Hunt's work load including today. Who knows - they may expedite it faster than I think or they could do it incrementally (because they can use Pierre Strong for a few reps until Hunt's ready for the bigger work load).
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Just a general reply.
People give Hunt way too much cred.
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