Brady6
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The reality is that Ridley is not in the same class as a Peterson or a JJ Watt. The reality is that Ridley has the lowest YPA of the team's 4 RBs, and your explanations/justifications don't change that. I think Ridley's the team's best interior RB. That doesn't make him elite, anymore than BJGE being the team's RB1 made him a quality RB1.
I am not suggesting he is.
• Ridley is in his 3rd season like Watt so if you don’t consider him to be elite you need to base that on his performance and not what point he is at in his career otherwise you could not compare Watt to be elite either because they’re as I mentioned at the same point.
• Ridley has had troubles with ball security in his first 3 seasons just like Adrian Peterson did in his first 3 seasons, you suggested that I cannot compare Peterson because he is an all-time great but I am not comparing Ridley to Peterson today I am comparing him to Peterson at 512 carries and at that point and time Peterson had similar career numbers to Ridley, does that mean he will be as good as Peterson of course not but you suggested that great players are given more time and if that is the case since they’re similar why wouldn’t Ridley be allowed that same time?
You can fault Ridley for not doing well with ball security that’s fine I just don’t understand why that has to be combined with diminishing the positive things he has done in his career so far? I think the young man has some issues but he is clearly the best primary runner on this team, to suggest Blount is better is ridiculous. Blount is a solid depth running back similar to Sammy Morris but if he was our lead back this board would be filled with hate threads for the guy and the draft section would be overloaded with RB prospects.