Raise your hand if you remember this trade

[kskboys]

I'm going to name two and this is obviously based on what you saw from their college career...........Bo Jackson and Herschel Walker. Agree? or who are your two?

Sorry, not Herschel.

Payton
Ladainian
Earl Campbell
Barry Sanders
Jim Brown
Jamaal Lewis

For that kind of resources spent, the RB must be a guy who can carry a team.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Oh I meant established backs; Jim Brown, Walter, Emmitt, Barry are locks. Then I'd have to ponder

Dickerson
AP
Tomlinson
Faulk.....

Those are off the top of my head. I was thinking established because someone brought up the Walker trade.

Ok...I was thinking most dominant college backs since the Saints thought enough of Williams to give up their entire draft.

 

[Avery]

They wanted David Putmey just because they feel like it. They live in a different world then they did 30 seconds ago.

That movie was written by an eight year-old. It’s not awful, just laughable.

 

[Hardline]

Thought about Dickerson but the fact he shared his backfield with Craig James, I'm not sure I saw enough to know he was going to as dominant as he was.
I simply forgot AP........

I would add Earl Campbell to the list as well.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Sorry, not Herschel.

Payton
Ladainian
Earl Campbell
Barry Sanders
Jim Brown
Jamaal Lewis

For that kind of resources spent, the RB must be a guy who can carry a team.

In my mind, this is based on Pre-NFL career........in other words, a college RB you felt strongly enough to give an entire draft. Not NFL after draft production......

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I would add Earl Campbell to the list as well.

I agree...

 

[kskboys]

That movie was written by an eight year-old. It’s not awful, just laughable.

?

 

[kskboys]

In my mind, this is based on Pre-NFL career........in other words, a college RB you felt strongly enough to give an entire draft. Not NFL after draft production......

You'd certainly have some flops among them then.

Trent Richardson
Cedric Benson
Darren McFadden
Eddie George
Montee Ball

The thing is, you cannot draft based on college production. Drafting is all about a player's skillset.

 

[Motorola]

And ended up w/ over 10,000 yds rushing!!!!!!!!

That stiil ranks no. 31 on the all-time list.
And from reviewing the rushers below him....10,000 appears to be the definitive milestone going forward for RBs now.
The next two dozen players after Williams have long since retired (the last one was after the 2016 season).
Mark Ingram and Zeke have a good chance to reach it - they need just over 2100 and 2600 yds respectively.

 

[kskboys]

That stiil ranks no. 31 on the all-time list.
And from reviewing the rushers below him....10,000 appears to be the definitive milestone going forward for RBs now.
The next two dozen players after Williams have long since retired (the last one was after the 2016 season).
Mark Ingram and Zeke have a good chance to reach it - they need just over 2100 and 2600 yds respectively.

W/o his chemical mental issues, Ricky would be talked about as a top 5 great RB. I feel for him, that sorta stuff is hard to handle.

 

[Motorola]

You'd certainly have some flops among them then.

Trent Richardson
Cedric Benson
Darren McFadden
Eddie George
Montee Ball

The thing is, you cannot draft based on college production. Drafting is all about a player's skillset.

Eddie George accumulated over 10,000 yds; he finished three spots ahead of Williams.

 

[kskboys]

Eddie George accumulated over 10,000 yds; he finished three spots ahead of Williams.

And was considered a semi bust.

 

[Motorola]

W/o his chemical mental issues, Ricky would be talked about as a top 5 great RB. I feel for him, that sorta stuff is hard to handle.

Also, once Ricky got his illness under control - he marched to his own beat in life.

 

[kskboys]

Also, once Ricky got his illness under control - he marched to his own beat in life.

His speed/agility/power combo was 2nd to none. Freaky athlete.

 

[john van brocklin]

and some say we drafted Zeke too high........

I do remember that trade.
Who can forget the goofing wedding picture with Ditka and Ricky Williams ?

 

[john van brocklin]

One of the greatest/worst draft trades ever, but not greater/worst than the trade between the Cowboys and Vikings back in Octer 12, 1989 labeled The Great Train Robbery. The Herschel Walker trade, also known as "The Great Train Robbery", was the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League.[1] It involved 18 players and draft picks.[2]

The trade
Minnesota Vikings received

• RB Herschel Walker
• Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1990 (54) (Mike Jones)
• San Diego's 5th round pick - 1990 (116) (Reggie Thornton)
• Dallas's 10th round pick - 1990 (249) (Pat Newman)
• Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1991 (68) (Jake Reed)

Dallas Cowboys received

• LB Jesse Solomon
• LB David Howard
• CB Issiac Holt
• RB Darrin Nelson (traded to San Diego after he refused to report to Dallas)
• DE Alex Stewart
• Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1990 (21) (traded this pick along with pick (81) for pick (17) from Pittsburgh to draft Emmitt Smith)
• Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1990 (47) (Alexander Wright)
• Minnesota's 6th round pick in 1990 (158) (traded to New Orleans, who drafted James Williams)
• Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1991 (conditional) - (12) (Alvin Harper)
• Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1991 (conditional) - (38) (Dixon Edwards)
• Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1992 (conditional) - (37) (Darren Woodson)
• Minnesota's 3rd round pick in 1992 (conditional) - (71) (traded to New England, who drafted Kevin Turner)
• Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1993 (conditional) - (13) (traded to Philadelphia Eagles, and then to the Houston Oilers, who drafted Brad Hopkins)[1]

Aftermath and legacy
Dallas ended up with a total of six of Minnesota's picks over the succeeding years, two 1st round and one 2nd round picks were used to draft Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson, winning multiple Super Bowls and being voted on to go to the Pro Bowl numerous times also. Jimmy Johnson used the other draft picks to make trades with other teams around the NFL. One of the trades led to obtaining the first overall draft pick in 1991, which was used to draft Russell Maryland. In other words, the trade of Herschel Walker to the Vikings contributed largely to the Cowboys' success in the early 1990s.

https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Herschel_Walker_trade

The trade to end all trades!!!
What a heist !!!

 

[Bigdog]

That movie was written by an eight year-old. It’s not awful, just laughable.

Yeah. It certainly was. I mean no GM would trade back their 3 first round picks they got to move up 1 spot and their dangerous kick returner. On top of that 3 2nds for the 6th pick in the draft. Any GM would be fired except ours.

 

[Motorola]

And was considered a semi bust.

I disagree.
7 of 9 seasons in the league-- over 1000 yds
First five seasons in the league: 1368 / 1399 / 1254/ 1304 / 1509.
However - IMO - the Titans misused him.
He basically was a battering ram - slamming into the LOS play after play.
Carried the ball over 300 times everyone of his fist 8 seasons in the league.
George was a straight-line, downhill runner. With no wiggle or shifting in his running style, he needed a better line to open up more holes versus him running into stacked DLines.
George was well on way being done inI his sixth season.
Probably should have gave it up before the last two years in Tennessee his final season with Dallas.
Again - just my opinion on how his career went.

 

[Khartun]

and some say we drafted Zeke too high........

The Commanders ended up getting Champ Bailey, Jon Jansen and LaVar Arrington among others for that. They definitely won that deal.

 

[Motorola]

I do remember that trade.
Who can forget the goofing wedding picture with Ditka and Ricky Williams ?

It was creepy to me.