Free-agent spotlight: Restricted free agents

Jack Vegas · 02-27-2014, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by TheOak

The love for Collins is another item I cant wrap my head around.

He is a FB, and had 1 good game last season blocking. That was against Dallas, even Scott Shanley had a good game that day.

Other than that, he is flatline on blocking or less than average.

He ave 3 yards per carry, and 3.6 yards per catch, he was thrown at 19 times and dropped 2 of them.

Teams are starting to do away with FBs, and I am not sure I could name 5 that played last year off the top of my head. Stats show other wise, I just cant recall many other than Tolbert, Kun, Sherman.

Also, all that success we had running the ball late last season? A large majority of it was in single-back sets. Ingram in particular seems to run much better without a lead blocker. I don't hate Collins at all, but that's a position where you can save some money and not lose anything much in terms of performance.

02-27-2014, 03:40 PM	#12
Jack Vegas 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,254	Re: Free-agent spotlight: Restricted free agents Originally Posted by TheOak The love for Collins is another item I cant wrap my head around. He is a FB, and had 1 good game last season blocking. That was against Dallas, even Scott Shanley had a good game that day. Other than that, he is flatline on blocking or less than average. He ave 3 yards per carry, and 3.6 yards per catch, he was thrown at 19 times and dropped 2 of them. Teams are starting to do away with FBs, and I am not sure I could name 5 that played last year off the top of my head. Stats show other wise, I just cant recall many other than Tolbert, Kun, Sherman. Also, all that success we had running the ball late last season? A large majority of it was in single-back sets. Ingram in particular seems to run much better without a lead blocker. I don't hate Collins at all, but that's a position where you can save some money and not lose anything much in terms of performance.
Jack Vegas 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,254