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Originally Posted by Dam8610

Don't want to see him get overused and injured like Edgerrin James. This kind of workload invariably leads to injury and/or drop in production.



Yeah, not liking Taylor's high mileage and fumble problem was way worse than pro scouts not thinking Russell Wilson was a starting caliber NFL QB. Not like I comped him to Arian Foster with top end speed shortly thereafter or anything.



My prediction did exactly come true. That fumble cost the Colts the game against Baltimore.

I'll admit I was lower on him on draft day than I should've been, and I very quickly changed on that, you can read my scouting report on him to see that. That said, I hate fumbling problems, because a RB with a fumbling problem is a negative play/turnover waiting to happen. A great example of this is Tiki Barber. Barber was a very talented RB, but he very nearly lost his starting job because he had a huge fumbling problem, he had 35 fumbles in a 4 year stretch from 2000-2003. In the next (and last) 3 years of his career, he was able to greatly mitigate that problem, fumbling only 8 times in that stretch, and became a 3 time Pro Bowler and 1 time first team All-Pro from 2004-2006. That's the difference a fumble problem can make. Taylor fumbled 18 times in 41 college games, that would come out to an average of 7.5 fumbles per 17 game season. Credit where it's due to Taylor on that, he has to this point cut down drastically on his fumble rate, but that was a concern when he was drafted. What's still a concern is the 968 collegiate touches. High workloads make RBs wear down faster. Fortunately, Taylor is 22, so hopefully it won't take its toll for a while, and a second contract might actually even be worthwhile for him, but if the Colts give him huge workloads, the risk of injury and ineffectiveness will increase exponentially. It shouldn't be a problem for the remainder of his rookie deal, but I certainly wouldn't want a situation where the Colts have committed a ton of resources to him to sit on IR like the Titans are experiencing with Henry right now and several other teams have experienced with high end RBs on second contracts.

I am confused. Are you being an overly defensive ass here, or are you admitting that you were wrong?