- Austin Ekeler

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/n ... 513735002/


Sorry, dude. Everything you said is probably true but you aren't getting paid. The only way you do is if some eccentric owner like Jerry Jones pulls a Ryan Pace and massively overpays for you. Absent that, and assuming GMs are rationale....you're not getting what you probably would have got 10-15 years ago. Sorry, dude. You play the wrong position.

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Mr. Ekeler, meet the Market...Market, meet Mr. Ekeler.

Nonetheless...would fit very, very nicely here with the beloved...and we be throwin the cash around

As LBs continue to get smaller, some coach is going to bring back the power running game and there will be an RB resurgence

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We have received Austin's application for a position in The Market. After careful consideration, we regret to inform him that he has not been selected.

We will retain his application in our database and wish him luck in his six games left as a viable RB.

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The NFL has colluded to suppress the contracts of RBs and now TEs. Pretty soon, the only players who will get big contracts will be quarterbacks.

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No collusion, just slowly realizing what I've been saying for 20 years, these guys are a dime a dozen..if it's very easy to replace you...you won't make as much money as someone who's harder to replace. Supply n demand.

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The best backs in the last 30 years..
Barry Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Adrian Peterson, Thurmond Thomas, Derek Henry.. one ring between all of em.

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Every single one of those RBs has a Super Bowl ring. Sanders has three you absolute dunce!

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Were the Titans playing in an alternate universe league lately?

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huh?

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I just thought it was me.

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Trying to think of RBs who would have scored massive deals not too long ago but were basically told to get lost or got tagged:

LeVeon Bell - career ruined because he held out, didn't get a deal, sat a whole season and came back washed.
Austin Ekeler
Barkley
Kareem Hunt

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Barkley will make 10 mill this year

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10-15 years ago he would have got 50

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in his Madden games, I guess.

And Barkley would have been sent packing if the Giants had been forced to tag Jones. I think the Giants will sign Barkley at some point this season for multiple seasons, but not for a jackpot deal.

Look it up

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shit you're right

Barkley was overpaid in 20 and 21.

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No, he underperformed due to injury. He has earned every penny the giants have paid him, and he put in the work to get back to as high of a level as he possibly can.

Injury or not, he didn't produce for those 2 years and was well paid, he didn't earn it.

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Barkley has been healthy for two full seasons I believe. During those two seasons be finished second and fourth overall in rushing yards. His contract was a pretty large rookie deal.

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He was special enough to take 2nd in the draft. He should be special enough to give an extension to.

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In the spirit of the thread's subject, I think 8-15 years ago he would have received a monster deal. It might have been somewhat muted due to his injury history, but no one in the 2000s and maybe early 2010s is not going after someone like Barkley. Now that RBs are viewed as disposable - except the very elite of the elite (Henry, McAfferey, etc.) - Barkley's situation makes sense to me.

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Running backs were valued enough for CMC and Barkley to be top 6 picks in back to back years.

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So are you saying you don't believe RBs are being devalued?

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I'm saying the collusion happened in the past few years. Barry Sanders wouldn't be a top 10 pick today.

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The game has changed

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No, a few running backs who got "big" deals got injured or didn't live up to the contracts. That scared teams away from investing in elite backs.

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