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Originally Posted by barrett
Who says we need a big guy? We had red zone and short yardage issues. You don't need a big guy for short yardage. The best 3 short yardage guys of all-time are probably LT, Marcus Allen, and Emmitt Smith. Big guys are great to wear on a defense or punish tacklers. Guys who hit the hole fast, hard, and low are great short yardage guys.
I for one would love a guy at RB who specializes at scoring TDs.
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I hear you. Marcus Allen for example, not a real big back, no doubt was one of the greatest short-yardage backs ever. But I also think there's a correlation between a back with size/strength and his ability to run inside the tackles where the traffic is relatively heavy, especially where the defense stacks a lot of bodies up at the los in short-yardage scenarios.
But whoever said bringing in LT is an Ahman Green redux got it right.