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When Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow hurt his calf in practice on July 28, head coach Zac Taylor said the quarterback would be out several weeks. Taylor said this week that there’s been no change to that timeline, but Burrow appears to have made a good deal of progress toward returning to action. Reporters at Paycor … Read more
“Running backs are expendable.” Those words, recently spoken by my brother-in-law, stung me like a Clubber Lang punch to the stomach. I grew up in the 1990s, when the NFL’s biggest names were mostly running backs. Emmitt Smith won league and Super Bowl MVP in the same year. Barry Sanders shared league MVP honors with … Read more
Once football’s glamour position, running back is currently under attack by a system that has diminished their monetary value. Austin Ekeler — with his and his peers’ livelihoods being challenged — has offered a temporarily solution that could lead to better days for him and the league’s other top-tier running backs. The solution was formed during … Read more