With the 2010 NFL Draft still many weeks away, Indy Football Report Editor John Oehser takes a look at the NFL Scouting Combine, held in late February and early March at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis. Oehser spent four days at the combine, and in the coming days will take a position-by-position look at the combine and the NFL Draft . . .
A great, rarely-emphasized truth of the NFL is the position of running back in recent years has become closer to an afterthought than anyone once imagined.
Think of it:
RB Chris Johnson rushed for 2,000 yards this season, and the Tennessee Titans failed to make the playoffs. The Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints play in the Super Bowl with running games barely more than afterthoughts at times. As quarterbacks go, so go teams, and having a big-time running back is nice, but hardly a necessity. So it is that it’s of no huge concern to NFL personnel officials that in the 2010 NFL Draft there is but one consensus big-time franchise running back.
That’s C.J. Spiller of Clemson.
