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September 25, 2014Reports coming out of Berea on Wednesday have undrafted rookie running back Isaiah Crowell worked ahead of Terrance West at Cleveland Browns practice.
With Ben Tate riding the stationary bike, Crowell was the first tailback through the rotation, with West working in second, signaling that Crowell is ahead of West (who was fourth in the NFL in rushing yards through the first two weeks) on the depth chart. “If a guy’s been productive, you find ways to get him on the field more,” coach Mike Pettine said after the session. “That’s a good problem to have—when you have a back, who before the season you weren’t factoring in on being a big part of what you’re doing, and he’s being productive, you find ways to get him out there.”
Crowell has averaged 5.2 yards per carry with three touchdowns in the Browns’ first three games, while West has netted a 4.3 yards per carry average with two scores (and two solid touchdown celebrations) of his own.
Browns running back coach Wilbert Montgomery expects Tate (knee) to regain his starting job when healthy—”That’s what we brought Tate here for, to be the starter”. He is tentatively due back after Cleveland’s Week 4 bye, meaning that West would go from Week 3 starter to No. 3 on the depth chart.
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So the browns have to choose between three starting quality RB’s?
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Like I said before…there’s plenty of room on the Crowell train.
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From game action I prefer West, but not by much.
I think it’s pretty hard to assess RB’s. That’s why uber-bust Trent Richardson–who on further review is and always was very close to being the worst back in the league– was able to get star-quality media run for so long. But there is a tried and true way to do it. Just pause the action at the point of the handoff, assess the state of the field, and put a number on it. This field should be good for 7 yards, that one for 2, etc. Then let it run and see what happened.
Crowell has more 9’s turned into 14’s, West has more 1’s turned into 5’s, pretty consistently getting the extra 1 or 2 yards even after solid hits. If there’s going to be a big hole, I’d rather have Crowell going into it. If it’s set the block, slam your way through a seam for 2, and topple the linebacker for 3 more, I want West. And I think West is the better receiver too.
But it’s a great problem to have. Well actually, not even a problem at all. It’s just great, and this depth is going to be big as the season progresses.
My fantasy team hopes not.
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I have both baby backs sitting in many of my free agents. I’m thinking about Crowell but not this week.
i don’t understand how you can just hit pause and expect the field to stay the same each time. I mean, how do you account for a lineman letting a defender off of the block? Or a late blitzer? I am not pointing a finger – i am actually asking how you would account for these types of things.
A guy used his waiver on crowell after the first game, so he was lost to me.
The dual backs are great for real life but horrible for fantasy because it means less points until one can establish dominance. A lot of RBs hurt this year one of my teams lost three guys two weeks ago. In fact I just added Robinson from NO.