Packers Not Being Considered for a Top Five RB Unit is a Joke
It is that time of the year again. That time where we get mad or happy with Pro Football Focus. I’ve said this before on the blogs, but Pro Football Focus is one of the biggest love/hate relationships out there. All fans use it to their advantage when it works and rail against it when it doesn’t. I should pick a side, but it’s easy for me to vacillate between the two. We are in the hate category today as the people of Pro Football Focus decided to not include the Green Bay Packers among the top five running back tandems. That’s a joke.
PFF’s top-5 RB rooms in the NFL 😤 pic.twitter.com/EVS6gcPTty
— PFF (@PFF) August 3, 2021
I get the first two. They’re more run-heavy teams and they do more with their running backs. Nick Chubb is a beast. And has a good backup in Kareem Hunt. Jonathan Taylor is poised for a breakout year then he has Nyheim Hines in his backfield ready to go. But the rest of them they can miss me with. New Orleans, we have no idea what that team will look like without Drew Brees. How does that affect what Alvin Kamara does? Do we know? Latavius Murray is not giving you much either. With Minnesota, I think Alex Mattison has only done stuff when Dalvin Cook has been injured. And finally Dallas… What are we doing here? Tony Pollard is a top backup running back? What? It seems like engagement bait to me.
Aaron Jones gets disrespected regularly. I don’t get it. I don’t know if it’s the Aaron Rodgers thing. If you think about the top guys mentioned here, their quarterback is sort of the second part of the equation minus Dallas. Jones deserves respect and so does A.J. Dillon. Green Bay is going to fierce on the ground and in the air with those two backs.
Charlie.