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2015 NFL Draft: Top 3 Running Back Sleepers

DaddyM89 : 3/27/2015 11:22 am
Hey guys let me know what you think. Any feedback is always appreciated and if you could comment on the actual article i'd really appreciate it. Thanks
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Nice write up  
sjnyfan : 3/27/2015 12:16 pm : link
although I wouldn't consider Duke Johnson and Abdullah sleepers. They're consensus top 5 at the position for most draftniks and analysts.
Wait and you will be rewarded.  
chiefmps : 3/27/2015 12:25 pm : link
Fix the offensive line first and then worry about a back. I bet you that the Giants can wait until the 7th round and draft Corey Grant from Auburn. Look him up and see why?
Yeah I don't know how you consider two guys sleepers  
Jay on the Island : 3/27/2015 12:28 pm : link
who are projected to go in rounds 2 or 3.
A sleeper would be someone like David Cobb  
Mike in NY : 3/27/2015 1:26 pm : link
Not Duke Johnson or Abdullah. If you are expected to go on the first 2 days of the draft you are not a sleeper IMHO. If anything I think Johnson and Abdullah are being overrated. Johnson has a lot of big play potential, but I wonder if he has the durability to be a 3 down RB. He looks like the next Shane Vereen, although he can only wish to be as good of a pass blocker as Vereen. Abdullah is well liked around here, but he has serious fumbling issues and his hand size (or lack thereof) is not going to miraculously change now that he is the NFL. Looking at how guys like Bernard and Andre Ellington have been constantly nicked up, Abdullah is not a feature RB like McCoy, Lynch, Charles, Foster, Murray etc.
Only one of the three guys you have listed are sleepers  
blueblood : 3/27/2015 1:28 pm : link
guys expected to go in round 2 arent sleepers..
thanks for the feedback guys  
DaddyM89 : 3/27/2015 1:29 pm : link
really appreciate it. I understand what you guys are saying about johnson and abdullah, looking back on it I probably should have used a term other than sleeper. Someting alogn the lines of best value rbs, etc. Anyway thakns again for the feedback.
RE: A sleeper would be someone like David Cobb  
TC : 3/27/2015 2:04 pm : link
In comment 12206576 Mike in NY said:
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Not Duke Johnson or Abdullah. If you are expected to go on the first 2 days of the draft you are not a sleeper IMHO. If anything I think Johnson and Abdullah are being overrated. Johnson has a lot of big play potential, but I wonder if he has the durability to be a 3 down RB. He looks like the next Shane Vereen, although he can only wish to be as good of a pass blocker as Vereen. Abdullah is well liked around here, but he has serious fumbling issues and his hand size (or lack thereof) is not going to miraculously change now that he is the NFL. Looking at how guys like Bernard and Andre Ellington have been constantly nicked up, Abdullah is not a feature RB like McCoy, Lynch, Charles, Foster, Murray etc.

Agree, it's hard to call these guys sleepers with exception of perhaps Williams. And Williams to me still looks like what he is, a gifted athlete playing out of position.
Williams  
Dragon : 3/28/2015 8:47 am : link
Has fallen out of the top 4 rounds but he has loads of talent but still needs to refine his entire skills which were never really developed properly. His first goal seems to be loose some weight and then work on his ability to avoid the first tackler.
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