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NFL draft evaluator talks about this year’s potential greatness of a RB class
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Everybody knows how loaded the running back position is for teams throughout the country in college football. From Leonard Fournette to Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Nick Chubb, Jalen Hurd, Wayne Gallman and Royce Freeman, there are an abundance of extremely talented backs.
Oh, and I almost forgot Oklahoma’s Semaje Perine. All he did was rush for 427 yards and score five touchdowns in a game back in 2014.
The point is, if all of these backs enter the upcoming NFL Draft, teams will have their pick of the litter as to who will be the feature back in their system for years to come. Yahoo! Sports talked a bit about LSU’s Fournette and Georgia’s Nick Chubb in particular.
“LSU’s Leonard Fournette is so good that people have told him to skip his final season of eligibility,” Eric Edholm said. “A late-game injury in the opening-game loss to Wisconsin made that advice sound prudent in retrospect.
“At first blush — our first mock draft of the fall isn’t going up until next week — we’ll predict that either Fournette (even if he’s nitpicked to death next spring, which feels inevitable) or Cook will be the first back off the board. Both have a good shot of going in the top 12 picks. After that, McCaffery (who is also an excellent slot receiver and return threat) could fit as a Reggie Bush-like chess piece in the middle to later parts of Round 1. If Chubb tests out favorably from a medical standpoint, he also very well could be a first-rounder.”
Edholm’s full article can be read here.
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